碍口识羞
ài​kǒu​shí​xiū

tongue-tied for fear of embarrassment

  • created sense approved 碍口识羞/礙口識羞 · ài​kǒu​shí​xiū · tongue-tied for fear of embarrassment — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    碍口识羞 / 礙口識羞

    ài​kǒu​shí​xiū

    tongue-tied for fear of embarrassment

    (idiom) to be too embarrassed to speak or to say something; to find it hard to speak up for fear of causing shame

    碍口 (literal) → 碍口/礙口 · ài​kǒu · embarrassing to say 识羞 (literal) → 识羞/識羞 · shí​xiū · to feel ashamed

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

    created sense