司马昭之心，路人皆知
sī​mǎ​zhāo​zhī​xīn​lù​rén​jiē​zhī

an open secret

  • created reference approved 司马昭之心，路人皆知/司馬昭之心，路人皆知 → 司马昭/司馬昭 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    司马昭之心，路人皆知 / 司馬昭之心，路人皆知 sī​mǎ​zhāo​zhī​xīn​lù​rén​jiē​zhī

    司马昭 / 司馬昭 sī​mǎ​zhāo

    see

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

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  • created sense approved 司马昭之心，路人皆知/司馬昭之心，路人皆知 · sī​mǎ​zhāo​zhī​xīn​lù​rén​jiē​zhī · an open secret — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    司马昭之心，路人皆知 / 司馬昭之心，路人皆知

    sī​mǎ​zhāo​zhī​xīn​lù​rén​jiē​zhī

    an open secret

    (idiom) a person's wicked ambitions or intentions are so obvious that everyone knows about them

    司马昭 (literal) → 司马昭/司馬昭 · sī​mǎ​zhāo · Sima Zhao 之 (literal) → 之 · zhī · [possessive] 心 (literal) → 心 · xīn · intention ， (non_chinese) 路人 (literal) → 路人 · lù​rén · passerby 皆知 (literal) → 皆知 · jiē​zhī · everyone knows

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

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