讨好卖乖 (討好賣乖)
tǎo hǎo mài guāi
Pinyin

Definition

讨好卖乖 (討好賣乖)
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tǎo hǎo mài guāi
  1. to curry favor by showing obeisance (idiom)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

hǎo
  1. 1 good
  2. 2 well
  3. 3 proper
  4. 4 good to
  5. 5 easy to
  6. 6 very
  7. 7 so
  8. 8 (suffix indicating completion or readiness)
  9. 9 (of two people) close
  10. 10 on intimate terms
  11. 11 (after a personal pronoun) hello
guāi
  1. 1 (of a child) obedient, well-behaved
  2. 2 clever
  3. 3 shrewd
  4. 4 alert
  5. 5 perverse
  6. 6 contrary to reason
  7. 7 irregular
  8. 8 abnormal
guāi guāi
  1. 1 (of a child) well-behaved
  2. 2 obediently
  3. 3 (term of endearment for a child) darling
  4. 4 sweetie
zhǐ hǎo
  1. 1 without any better option
  2. 2 to have to
  3. 3 to be forced to
hǎo bù róng yì
  1. 1 with great difficulty
  2. 2 very difficult

Idioms (20)

上一次当,学一次乖
shàng yī cì dàng , xué yī cì guāi
  1. 1 to take sth as a lesson for next time (idiom)
  2. 2 once bitten, twice shy
不问好歹
bù wèn hǎo dǎi
  1. 1 no matter what may happen (idiom)
不知好歹
bù zhī hǎo dǎi
  1. 1 unable to differentiate good from bad (idiom)
  2. 2 not to know what's good for one
  3. 3 unable to recognize others' good intentions
不识好歹
bù shí hǎo dǎi
  1. 1 unable to tell good from bad (idiom)
  2. 2 undiscriminating
做好做歹
zuò hǎo zuò dǎi
  1. 1 to persuade using all possible arguments (idiom); to act good cop and bad cop in turn