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拾人牙慧
shí​rén​yá​huì

to parrot

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
  1. 拾 shí verb
    to pick up
    to pick up from the ground; to collect or gather
  2. 人 rén nounpronoun
    other people
    other people; others; another person
  3. 牙慧 yá​huì
    recycled ideas
    (literary) another person's opinions, sayings, or ideas; often used in the context of parroting or plagiarizing others, as in the idiom 拾人牙慧 shí​rén​yá​huì