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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- to curry favor by showing obeisance (idiom)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 good
- 2 well
- 3 proper
- 4 good to
- 5 easy to
- 6 very
- 7 so
- 8 (suffix indicating completion or readiness)
- 9 (of two people) close
- 10 on intimate terms
- 11 (after a personal pronoun) hello
- 1 (of a child) obedient, well-behaved
- 2 clever
- 3 shrewd
- 4 alert
- 5 perverse
- 6 contrary to reason
- 7 irregular
- 8 abnormal
- 1 (of a child) well-behaved
- 2 obediently
- 3 (term of endearment for a child) darling
- 4 sweetie
- 1 without any better option
- 2 to have to
- 3 to be forced to
- 1 with great difficulty
- 2 very difficult
Idioms (20)
上一次当,学一次乖
- 1 to take sth as a lesson for next time (idiom)
- 2 once bitten, twice shy
不问好歹
- 1 no matter what may happen (idiom)
不知好歹
- 1 unable to differentiate good from bad (idiom)
- 2 not to know what's good for one
- 3 unable to recognize others' good intentions
不识好歹
- 1 unable to tell good from bad (idiom)
- 2 undiscriminating
做好做歹
- 1 to persuade using all possible arguments (idiom); to act good cop and bad cop in turn