抹布
mā bù
Pinyin
Definition
抹布
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- cleaning rag
- also pr. [mǒ bù]
Character Decomposition
Idioms (8)
抹不下脸
- 1 to be unable to keep a straight face (idiom)
拐弯抹角
- 1 lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom)
- 2 fig. to speak in a roundabout way
- 3 to equivocate
- 4 to beat about the bush
推陈布新
- 1 to push out the old and bring in the new (idiom); to innovate
- 2 to go beyond old ideas
- 3 advancing all the time
星罗棋布
- 1 scattered about like stars in the sky or chess pieces on a board (idiom); spread all over the place
淡妆浓抹
- 1 in light or heavy makeup (idiom)