貴人多忘事
guì​rén​duō​wàng​shì

eminent people are forgetful

  • created sense approved 贵人多忘事/貴人多忘事 · guì​rén​duō​wàng​shì · eminent people are forgetful — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    贵人多忘事 / 貴人多忘事

    guì​rén​duō​wàng​shì

    eminent people are forgetful

    Used as a polite or ironic way to say that someone has a poor memory or has forgotten something; implies that important people have many things on their mind and are thus likely to forget.

    贵人 (literal) → 贵人/貴人 · guì​rén · person of high rank 多 (literal) → 多 · duō · often 忘 (literal) → 忘 · wàng · to forget 事 (literal) → 事 · shì · matter

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

    created sense