放着明白装糊涂
fàng​zhe​míng​bai​zhuāng​hú​tu

to pretend to be ignorant

  • created sense approved 放着明白装糊涂/放著明白裝糊塗 · fàng​zhe​míng​bai​zhuāng​hú​tu · to pretend to be ignorant — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    放着明白装糊涂 / 放著明白裝糊塗

    fàng​zhe​míng​bai​zhuāng​hú​tu

    to pretend to be ignorant

    to feign confusion or ignorance about something one actually understands perfectly; to play dumb

    放着 (literal) → 放着/放著 · fàng​zhe · right there 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