耍笔杆子
shuǎ​bǐ​gǎn​zi

to wield a pen

  • created sense approved 耍笔杆子/耍筆桿子 · shuǎ​bǐ​gǎn​zi · to wield a pen — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    耍笔杆子 / 耍筆桿子

    shuǎ​bǐ​gǎn​zi

    to wield a pen

    to make a living by writing or to engage in professional writing, often with a derogatory connotation of being a desk-bound intellectual or engaging in empty rhetoric

    耍 (literal) → 耍 · shuǎ · to wield 笔杆子 (literal) → 笔杆子/筆桿子 · bǐ​gǎn​zi · effective writer

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

    created sense