打马虎眼
dǎ​mǎ​hu​yǎn

to play dumb

  • created sense approved 打马虎眼/打馬虎眼 · dǎ​mǎ​hu​yǎn · to play dumb — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    打马虎眼 / 打馬虎眼

    dǎ​mǎ​hu​yǎn

    to play dumb

    to pretend to be ignorant or confused in order to deceive someone; to stall for time or shirk responsibility

    dǎ​mǎ​hū​yǎn

    打, 马虎眼

    打 (literal) → 打 · dǎ · to mark; to apply 马虎眼 (literal) → 马虎眼/馬虎眼 · mǎ​hu​yǎn · trick

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

    created sense