无事生非
wú​shì​shēng​fēi

to make trouble out of nothing

  • created reference approved 无事生非/無事生非 → 没事找事/沒事找事 (synonym) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    无事生非 / 無事生非 wú​shì​shēng​fēi

    没事找事 / 沒事找事 méi​shì​zhǎo​shì

    synonym

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 无事生非/無事生非 · wú​shì​shēng​fēi · to make trouble out of nothing — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    无事生非 / 無事生非

    wú​shì​shēng​fēi

    to make trouble out of nothing

    (idiom) to provoke trouble without cause; to deliberately create a disturbance where there was originally no problem

    无 (literal) → 无/無 · wú · to not have 事 (literal) → 事 · shì · matter 生 (literal) → 生 · shēng · to give rise to 非 (literal) → 非 · fēi · wrong

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

    created sense