马屁 (馬屁)
mǎ pì
Pinyin

Definition

马屁 (馬屁)
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mǎ pì
  1. horse hindquarters
  2. flattery
  3. boot-licking

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

屁股
pì gu
  1. 1 buttocks
  2. 2 bottom
  3. 3 butt
  4. 4 back part
屁
pì
  1. 1 fart
  2. 2 flatulence
  3. 3 nonsense
  4. 4 (usu. in the negative) what
  5. 5 (not) a damn thing
屁事
pì shì
  1. 1 (vulgar) trifling matter
  2. 2 mere trifle
  3. 3 goddamn thing
  4. 4 goddamn business
屁屁
pì pi
  1. 1 (child language) buttocks
  2. 2 bottom
屁眼
pì yǎn
  1. 1 anus

Idioms (3)

屁滚尿流
pì gǔn niào liú
  1. 1 to piss in one's pants in terror (idiom); scared witless
掇臀捧屁
duō tún pěng pì
  1. 1 to hold up buttocks and praise a fart (idiom); to use flatter to get what one wants
  2. 2 to toady
  3. 3 boot-licking
热脸贴冷屁股
rè liǎn tiē lěng pì gu
  1. 1 to show warm feelings but meet with cold rebuke (idiom)
  2. 2 to be snubbed despite showing good intentions

Sample Sentences

听起来你是要我拍马屁，当墙头草吧。这种事我才不干。
tīngqilai nǐ shì yào wǒ pāimǎpì ，dāng qiángtóucǎo ba 。zhèzhǒng shì wǒ cái bù gàn 。
It sounds like you want me to butter everyone up and be a pushover. I'm not doing these things.
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马屁拍在马腿上。
mǎpì pāi zài mǎ tuǐ shàng 。
To flatter people in the wrong way.
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马屁应该要拍在马屁上，人家才会开心。
mǎpì yīnggāi yào pāi zài mǎpì shang ，rénjia cái huì kāixīn 。
You should flatter people in the right way, so people might be actually happy.
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你看看你，马屁拍在马腿上。下次别这么常拍马屁了。
nǐ kànkan nǐ ，mǎpìpāizàimǎtuǐshang 。xiàcì bié zhème cháng pāimǎpì le 。
Look at yourself. You flattered your boss in the wrong way. Don’t flatter people that often.
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马屁别拍在马腿上，也别太常拍马屁。
mǎpì bié pāi zài mǎ tuǐ shang ，yě bié tài cháng pāimǎpì 。
Don’t flatter people in the wrong way. And don’t butter people up too often, either.
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想也知道，还不是那个爱拍马屁的文小白，一定是他跟老板说了什么！
xiǎng yě zhīdào ，háibùshì nàge ài pāimǎpì de wénxiǎobái ，yīdìng shì tā gēn lǎobǎn shuō le shénme ！
I think you can probably guess. It must have been that brown-noser Wen Xiaobai that said something to the boss about me!
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这个马屁精，看见这两天总公司有人来，就成天找我们麻烦。
zhège mǎpìjīng ，kànjiàn zhè liǎng tiān zǒnggōngsī yǒurén lái ，jiù chéngtiān zhǎo wǒmen máfan 。
That brown noser, the past couple days he saw there was someone from head office here, so all day long kept trying to give us trouble.
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是“妹妹”、“哥哥”。这些都来自拼音。不过，一般指的就是女孩儿、男孩儿。这个“PMP”是“拍马屁”。
shì “mèimei ”、“gēge ”。zhèxiē dōu láizì pīnyīn 。bùguò ，yībān zhǐ de jiùshì nǚháir 、nánháir 。zhège “PMP”shì “pāimǎpì ”。
That's ``meimei" and ``gege." They come from the pinyin. But they just refer to girls and boys. This ``PMP" means ``pai ma pi."
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