巧妻常伴拙夫眠
qiǎo​qī​cháng​bàn​zhuō​fū​mián

smart girls often have dull husbands

  • created reference approved 巧妻常伴拙夫眠 → 巧妇常伴拙夫眠/巧婦常伴拙夫眠 (same_as) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    巧妻常伴拙夫眠 qiǎo​qī​cháng​bàn​zhuō​fū​mián

    巧妇常伴拙夫眠 / 巧婦常伴拙夫眠 qiǎo​fù​cháng​bàn​zhuō​fū​mián

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  • created sense approved 巧妻常伴拙夫眠 · qiǎo​qī​cháng​bàn​zhuō​fū​mián · smart girls often have dull husbands — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    巧妻常伴拙夫眠

    qiǎo​qī​cháng​bàn​zhuō​fū​mián

    smart girls often have dull husbands

    An idiom describing a common observation that clever or beautiful women are often married to clumsy or unremarkable men; similar to the phrase [[巧妇常伴拙夫眠|巧婦常伴拙夫眠|qiao3 fu4 chang2 ban4 zhuo1 fu1 mian2]]

    qiǎo​qī​cháng​bàn​zhuó​fū​mián

    巧 (literal) → 巧 · qiǎo · skillful 妻 (literal) → 妻 · qī · wife 常 (literal) → 常 · cháng · often 伴 (literal) → 伴 · bàn · to accompany 拙 (literal) → 拙 · zhuō · clumsy 夫 (literal) → 夫 · fū · husband 眠 (literal) → 眠 · mián · to sleep

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