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打马虎眼
dǎ​mǎ​hu​yǎn

to play dumb

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
打马虎眼 打馬虎眼 dǎ//mǎ​hu​yǎn
to play dumb
to pretend to be ignorant or confused in order to deceive someone; to stall for time or shirk responsibility

Frequency

Written text
0.105 per million

Cross-References

Synonym

  • 捣浆糊 dǎo​jiàng​hu

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)