冒天下之大不韙
mào​tiān​xià​zhī​dà​bù​wěi

to risk universal condemnation

  • created reference approved 冒天下之大不韪/冒天下之大不韙 → 犯天下之不韪/犯天下之不韙 (synonym) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    冒天下之大不韪 / 冒天下之大不韙 mào​tiān​xià​zhī​dà​bù​wěi

    犯天下之不韪 / 犯天下之不韙 fàn​tiān​xià​zhī​bù​wěi

    synonym

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 冒天下之大不韪/冒天下之大不韙 · mào​tiān​xià​zhī​dà​bù​wěi · to risk universal condemnation — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    冒天下之大不韪 / 冒天下之大不韙

    mào​tiān​xià​zhī​dà​bù​wěi

    to risk universal condemnation

    to defy public opinion by doing something everyone knows is wrong; to flagrantly act against the common sense of right and wrong despite certain criticism

    冒 (literal) → 冒 · mào · to brave 天下 (literal) → 天下 · tiān​xià · the world 之 (literal) → 之 · zhī · [possessive] 大不韪 (literal) → 大不韪/大不韙 · dà​bù​wěi · great error

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

    created sense