拍马屁 (拍馬屁)
pāi mǎ pì
Pinyin

Definition

拍马屁 (拍馬屁)
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pāi mǎ pì
  1. to flatter
  2. to fawn on
  3. to butter sb up
  4. toadying
  5. boot-licking

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

拍
pāi
  1. 1 to pat
  2. 2 to clap
  3. 3 to slap
  4. 4 to swat
  5. 5 to take (a photo)
  6. 6 to shoot (a film)
  7. 7 racket (sports)
  8. 8 beat (music)
偷拍
tōu pāi
  1. 1 to take a picture of a person without permission or without their knowledge
实拍
shí pāi
  1. 1 candid photograph
  2. 2 genuine photograph (not set up or doctored)
屁事
pì shì
  1. 1 (vulgar) trifling matter
  2. 2 mere trifle
  3. 3 goddamn thing
  4. 4 goddamn business
屁屁
pì pi
  1. 1 (child language) buttocks
  2. 2 bottom

Idioms (9)

一拍两散
yī pāi liǎng sàn
  1. 1 (of marriage or business partners) to break up (idiom)
  2. 2 to separate
一拍即合
yī pāi jí hé
  1. 1 lit. to be together from the first beat (idiom)
  2. 2 to hit it off
  3. 3 to click together
  4. 4 to chime in easily
屁滚尿流
pì gǔn niào liú
  1. 1 to piss in one's pants in terror (idiom); scared witless
拍案叫绝
pāi àn jiào jué
  1. 1 lit. slap the table and shout with praise (idiom); fig. wonderful!
  2. 2 amazing!
  3. 3 great!
拍案而起
pāi àn ér qǐ
  1. 1 lit. to slap the table and stand up (idiom); fig. at the end of one's tether
  2. 2 unable to take it any more

Sample Sentences

听起来你是要我拍马屁，当墙头草吧。这种事我才不干。
tīngqilai nǐ shì yào wǒ pāimǎpì ，dāng qiángtóucǎo ba 。zhèzhǒng shì wǒ cái bù gàn 。
It sounds like you want me to butter everyone up and be a pushover. I'm not doing these things.
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你看看你，马屁拍在马腿上。下次别这么常拍马屁了。
nǐ kànkan nǐ ，mǎpìpāizàimǎtuǐshang 。xiàcì bié zhème cháng pāimǎpì le 。
Look at yourself. You flattered your boss in the wrong way. Don’t flatter people that often.
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马屁别拍在马腿上，也别太常拍马屁。
mǎpì bié pāi zài mǎ tuǐ shang ，yě bié tài cháng pāimǎpì 。
Don’t flatter people in the wrong way. And don’t butter people up too often, either.
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想也知道，还不是那个爱拍马屁的文小白，一定是他跟老板说了什么！
xiǎng yě zhīdào ，háibùshì nàge ài pāimǎpì de wénxiǎobái ，yīdìng shì tā gēn lǎobǎn shuō le shénme ！
I think you can probably guess. It must have been that brown-noser Wen Xiaobai that said something to the boss about me!
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是“妹妹”、“哥哥”。这些都来自拼音。不过，一般指的就是女孩儿、男孩儿。这个“PMP”是“拍马屁”。
shì “mèimei ”、“gēge ”。zhèxiē dōu láizì pīnyīn 。bùguò ，yībān zhǐ de jiùshì nǚháir 、nánháir 。zhège “PMP”shì “pāimǎpì ”。
That's ``meimei" and ``gege." They come from the pinyin. But they just refer to girls and boys. This ``PMP" means ``pai ma pi."
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