看人下菜碟儿
kàn​rén​xià​cài​dié​r

to be snobbish

  • created sense approved 看人下菜碟儿/看人下菜碟兒 · kàn​rén​xià​cài​dié​r · to be snobbish — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    看人下菜碟儿 / 看人下菜碟兒

    kàn​rén​xià​cài​dié​r

    to be snobbish

    (dialect) to treat people differently based on their social status or relationship; to not treat everyone equally favorably.

    看 (literal) → 看 · kàn · to see 人 (literal) → 人 · rén · person 下 (literal) → 下 · xià · to put in 菜 (literal) → 菜 · cài · dish 碟 (literal) → 碟 · dié · small plate 儿 (bound) → 儿/兒 · r · [erhua suffix]

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

    created sense