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欲盖弥彰
yù​gài​mí​zhāng

conspicuous cover-up

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
欲盖弥彰 (欲蓋彌彰) yù​gài​mí​zhāng
conspicuous cover-up idiom
trying to hide it makes it more conspicuous; a cover-up only makes matters worse

Frequency

Written text
0.508 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)