姑妄聽之
gū​wàng​tīng​zhī

to listen with a grain of salt

  • created sense approved 姑妄听之/姑妄聽之 · gū​wàng​tīng​zhī · to listen with a grain of salt — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    姑妄听之 / 姑妄聽之

    gū​wàng​tīng​zhī

    to listen with a grain of salt

    To listen to something tentatively or for what it is worth without necessarily believing it to be true.

    姑 (literal) → 姑 · gū · tentatively 妄 (literal) → 妄 · wàng · rashly 听 (literal) → 听/聽 · tīng · to listen 之 (literal) → 之 · zhī · it

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

    created sense