傍人籬壁
bàng​rén​lí​bì

to depend on others

  • created sense approved 傍人篱壁/傍人籬壁 · bàng​rén​lí​bì · to depend on others — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    傍人篱壁 / 傍人籬壁

    bàng​rén​lí​bì

    to depend on others

    to lean on others for help or to lack originality; literally meaning to rely on another person's fence or wall

    傍 (literal) → 傍 · bàng · to depend on 人 (literal) → 人 · rén · other people 篱 (literal) → 篱/籬 · lí · fence 壁 (literal) → 壁 · bì · wall

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

    created sense