拾人唾涕
shí​rén​tuò​tì

to plagiarize

  • created sense approved 拾人唾涕 · shí​rén​tuò​tì · to plagiarize — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    拾人唾涕

    shí​rén​tuò​tì

    to plagiarize

    to parrot the words of others without any original thought; to pick up and use other people's discarded ideas

    拾 (literal) → 拾 · shí · to pick up 人 (literal) → 人 · rén · other people 唾 (bound) → 唾 · tuò · saliva 涕 (bound) → 涕 · tì · tears

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

    created sense