虚应了事
xū​yìng​liǎo​shì

to go through the motions

  • created sense approved 虚应了事/虛應了事 · xū​yìng​liǎo​shì · to go through the motions — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    虚应了事 / 虛應了事

    xū​yìng​liǎo​shì

    to go through the motions

    to do something half-heartedly just to get it over with or fulfill a requirement

    虚 (literal) → 虚/虛 · xū · false 应 (literal) → 应/應 · yìng · to deal with 了事 (literal) → 了事 · liǎo​shì · to settle a matter

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

    created sense