揣着明白装糊涂
chuāi​zhe​míng​bai​zhuāng​hú​tu

to play dumb

  • created sense approved 揣着明白装糊涂/揣著明白裝糊塗 · chuāi​zhe​míng​bai​zhuāng​hú​tu · to play dumb — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    揣着明白装糊涂 / 揣著明白裝糊塗

    chuāi​zhe​míng​bai​zhuāng​hú​tu

    to play dumb

    to pretend not to know something even though one understands it perfectly; to feign ignorance

    揣 (literal) → 揣 · chuāi · to put in one's clothes 着 (bound) → 着/著 · zhe · [continuous] 明白 (literal) → 明白 · míng​bai · to understand 装糊涂 (literal) → 装糊涂/裝糊塗 · zhuāng​hú​tu · to feign ignorance

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

    created sense