杯底逢蛇
bēi​dǐ​féng​shé

extremely suspicious

  • created sense approved 杯底逢蛇 · bēi​dǐ​féng​shé · extremely suspicious — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    杯底逢蛇

    bēi​dǐ​féng​shé

    extremely suspicious

    to be overly suspicious or fearful; (variant of [[杯弓蛇影|杯弓蛇影|bei1 gong1 she2 ying3]]) literally seeing a snake at the bottom of a cup, originally from the story of mistaking a bow's reflection in a wine cup for a snake

    杯 (literal) → 杯 · bēi · cup 底 (literal) → 底 · dǐ · bottom 逢 (literal) → 逢 · féng · to meet 蛇 (literal) → 蛇 · shé · snake

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

    created sense