没头没脸 (沒頭沒臉)
méi tóu méi liǎn
Pinyin
Definition
没头没脸 (沒頭沒臉)
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- lit. without head, without face (idiom)
- fig. frenzily
- haphazardly
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 (negative prefix for verbs)
- 2 have not
- 3 not
- 1 haven't
- 2 hasn't
- 3 doesn't exist
- 4 to not have
- 5 to not be
- 1 head
- 2 hair style
- 3 the top
- 4 end
- 5 beginning or end
- 6 a stub
- 7 remnant
- 8 chief
- 9 boss
- 10 side
- 11 aspect
- 12 first
- 13 leading
- 14 classifier for pigs or livestock
- 15 classifier: 个 gè
- 1 hair (on the head)
Idioms (20)
丈二和尚,摸不着头脑
- 1 lit. like a three-meter high monk, you can't rub his head (idiom)
- 2 fig. at a total loss
三个和尚没水喝
- 1 lit. three monks have no water to drink (idiom)
- 2 fig. everybody's business is nobody's business
- 3 (If there is one monk, he will fetch water for himself. If there are two, they will fetch water together. But if there are three or more, none will take it upon himself to fetch water.)
三天两头
- 1 lit. twice every three days (idiom); practically every day
- 2 frequently
三头六臂
- 1 lit. to have three heads and six arms (idiom)
- 2 fig. to possess remarkable abilities
- 3 a being of formidable powers
不撞南墙不回头
- 1 to stubbornly insist on one's own ideas (idiom)