看走眼
kàn zǒu yǎn
Pinyin

Definition

看走眼
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kàn zǒu yǎn
  1. to make an error of judgment
  2. to be taken in

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

好看
hǎo kàn
  1. 1 good-looking
  2. 2 nice-looking
  3. 3 good (of a movie, book, TV show etc)
  4. 4 embarrassed
  5. 5 humiliated
查看
chá kàn
  1. 1 to look over
  2. 2 to examine
  3. 3 to check up
  4. 4 to ferret out
看
kān
  1. 1 to look after
  2. 2 to take care of
  3. 3 to watch
  4. 4 to guard
看看
kàn kan
  1. 1 to take a look at
  2. 2 to examine
  3. 3 to survey
  4. 4 (coll.) pretty soon
眼
yǎn
  1. 1 eye
  2. 2 small hole
  3. 3 crux (of a matter)
  4. 4 classifier: 只 zhī
  5. 5 classifier: 双 shuāng
  6. 6 classifier for big hollow things (wells, stoves, pots etc)

Idioms (20)

一把眼泪一把鼻涕
yī bǎ yǎn lèi yī bǎ bí tì
  1. 1 with one's face covered in tears (idiom)
一板一眼
yī bǎn yī yǎn
  1. 1 lit. one strong beat and one weak beats in a measure of music (two beats in the bar) (idiom); fig. follow a prescribed pattern to the letter
  2. 2 scrupulous attention to detail
一板三眼
yī bǎn sān yǎn
  1. 1 lit. one strong beat and three weak beats in a measure of music (four beats in the bar) (idiom); fig. scrupulous attention to detail
一条路走到黑
yī tiáo lù zǒu dào hēi
  1. 1 lit. to follow one road until dark (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to stick to one's ways
  3. 3 to cling to one's course
一眼看穿
yī yǎn kàn chuān
  1. 1 to see through something at first glance (idiom)

Sample Sentences

以前同学们就老说你有抱负，是块做生意的料，大家没看走眼。
yǐqián tóngxué men jiù lǎo shuō nǐ yǒu bàofù ，shì kuài zuò shēngyì de liào ，dàjiā méi kànzǒuyǎn 。
In the past, our classmates always said you were ambitious. They said you were made of the right stuff for doing business. They weren’t mistaken.
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