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想当然耳
xiǎng​dāng​rán'ěr

to take for granted

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
  1. 想当然 想當然 xiǎng​dāng​rán
    to take for granted
    to assume that something must be so without having any factual evidence; to make subjective assumptions or conjectures
  2. 耳 ěr
    [limitation]
    Literary word used at the end of a sentence to express limitation, meaning "and that is all" or "nothing more", similar to 而已 ér​yǐ or 罢了 bà​le.