想當然
xiǎng​dāng​rán

to take for granted

  • created sense approved 想当然/想當然 · xiǎng​dāng​rán · to take for granted — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    想当然 / 想當然

    xiǎng​dāng​rán

    to take for granted

    to assume that something must be so without having any factual evidence; to make subjective assumptions or conjectures

    想 (literal) → 想 · xiǎng · to believe 当然 (literal) → 当然/當然 · dāng​rán · natural

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

    created sense