凭本能做事
píng​běn​néng​zuò​shì

to follow one's nose

  • created sense approved 凭本能做事/憑本能做事 · píng​běn​néng​zuò​shì · to follow one's nose — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    凭本能做事 / 憑本能做事

    píng​běn​néng​zuò​shì

    to follow one's nose

    to act based on instinct rather than reason; to follow one's intuition

    凭 (literal) → 凭/憑 · píng · based on 本能 (literal) → 本能 · běn​néng · instinct 做事 (literal) → 做事 · zuò​shì · to work

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

    created sense