做表面文章
zuò​biǎo​miàn​wén​zhāng

to work for appearance's sake

  • created sense approved 做表面文章 · zuò​biǎo​miàn​wén​zhāng · to work for appearance's sake — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    做表面文章

    zuò​biǎo​miàn​wén​zhāng

    to work for appearance's sake

    to do something just for show; to be superficial or perfunctory by focusing on outward appearance rather than substance or results

    做, , 表面文章

    做 (literal) → 做 · zuò · to do 表面 (literal) → 表面 · biǎo​miàn · appearance 文章 (literal) → 文章 · wén​zhāng · article

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense