装穷叫苦 (裝窮叫苦)
zhuāng qióng jiào kǔ
Pinyin
Definition
装穷叫苦 (裝窮叫苦)
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- to feign and complain bitterly of being poverty stricken (idiom)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to shout
- 2 to call
- 3 to order
- 4 to ask
- 5 to be called
- 6 by (indicates agent in the passive mood)
- 1 bitter
- 2 hardship
- 3 pain
- 4 to suffer
- 5 to bring suffering to
- 6 painstakingly
- 1 exhausting
- 2 hard
- 3 tough
- 4 arduous
- 5 to work hard
- 6 to go to a lot of trouble
- 7 hardship(s)
- 1 why bother?
- 2 is it worth the trouble?
Idioms (20)
不胜其苦
- 1 unable to bear the pain (idiom)
倒悬之苦
- 1 lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
- 2 dire straits
备尝辛苦
- 1 to have suffered all kinds of hardships (idiom)
冥思苦想
- 1 to consider from all angles (idiom); to think hard
- 2 to rack one's brains
冥思苦索
- 1 to mull over (idiom)
- 2 to think long and hard