大题小作
dà​tí​xiǎo​zuò

to treat a major issue as minor

  • created reference approved 大题小作/大題小作 → 小题大作/小題大作 (antonym) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    大题小作 / 大題小作 dà​tí​xiǎo​zuò

    小题大作 / 小題大作 xiǎo​tí​dà​zuò

    antonym

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

    created reference

  • created sense approved 大题小作/大題小作 · dà​tí​xiǎo​zuò · to treat a major issue as minor — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    大题小作 / 大題小作

    dà​tí​xiǎo​zuò

    to treat a major issue as minor

    to treat an important question as a minor matter; a brief treatment of a complicated subject; to cut a long story short

    大 (literal) → 大 · dà · big 题 (literal) → 题/題 · tí · topic 小 (literal) → 小 · xiǎo · small 作 (literal) → 作 · zuò · to do

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

    created sense