贻笑大方 (貽笑大方)
yí xiào dà fāng
Pinyin

Definition

贻笑大方 (貽笑大方)
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yí xiào dà fāng
  1. to make a fool of oneself
  2. to make oneself a laughing stock

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

xiào
  1. 1 old variant of 笑[xiào]
dì fāng
  1. 1 region
  2. 2 regional (away from the central administration)
  3. 3 local
  1. 1 big
  2. 2 huge
  3. 3 large
  4. 4 major
  5. 5 great
  6. 6 wide
  7. 7 deep
  8. 8 older (than)
  9. 9 oldest
  10. 10 eldest
  11. 11 greatly
  12. 12 very much
  13. 13 (dialect) father
  14. 14 father's elder or younger brother
dà jí
  1. 1 very auspicious
  2. 2 extremely lucky
dà jiā
  1. 1 everyone
  2. 2 influential family
  3. 3 great expert

Idioms (20)

一醉方休
yī zuì fāng xiū
  1. 1 to get thoroughly drunk (idiom)
  2. 2 to get plastered
不以规矩,不能成方圆
bù yǐ guī ju , bù néng chéng fāng yuán
  1. 1 without rules, nothing can be done (idiom, from Mencius); one must follow some rules
不识大体
bù shí dà tǐ
  1. 1 to fail to see the larger issue (idiom)
  2. 2 to fail to grasp the big picture
久仰大名
jiǔ yǎng dà míng
  1. 1 I have been looking forward to meeting you for a long time (idiom)
五十步笑百步
wǔ shí bù xiào bǎi bù
  1. 1 the one who has retreated 50 steps laughs at the one who has retreated 100 steps (idiom)
  2. 2 the pot calls the kettle black