掩人耳目
yǎn rén ěr mù
Pinyin
Definition
掩人耳目
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- to fool people (idiom)
- to pull the wool over people's eyes
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一人得道,鸡犬升天
- 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
- 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
- 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
- 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一目了然
- 1 obvious at a glance (idiom)
一目了然
- 1 obvious at a glance (idiom)
一目十行
- 1 ten lines at a glance (idiom)
- 2 to read very rapidly
一叶障目
- 1 lit. eyes obscured by a single leaf (idiom)
- 2 fig. not seeing the wider picture
- 3 can't see the wood for the trees
Sample Sentences
就算没勇气出柜,也不能为了掩人耳目,断送别人的幸福啊!跟一个正常的渴望爱的人结婚,把婚姻当幌子,自己却出去找同性寄托自己的性和情,呃,太恶心了!
Even if they don't have the courage to come out, they still shouldn't deceive people and deprive others of their happiness! To get married to someone with normal love needs and use marriage as a cover, and then to go out and look for someone gay to satisfy their emotional and sexual needs... Oh, it's disgusting!