贻笑大方
yí​xiào​dà​fāng

to make a fool of oneself before experts

  • created reference approved 贻笑大方/貽笑大方 → 见笑大方/見笑大方 (same_as) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    贻笑大方 / 貽笑大方 yí​xiào​dà​fāng

    见笑大方 / 見笑大方 jiàn​xiào​dà​fāng

    same_as

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

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  • created sense approved 贻笑大方/貽笑大方 · yí​xiào​dà​fāng · to make a fool of oneself before experts — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    贻笑大方 / 貽笑大方

    yí​xiào​dà​fāng

    to make a fool of oneself before experts

    to behave in a way that attracts ridicule from experts or people of great learning; to make oneself a laughingstock before people who know better

    贻 (literal) → 贻/貽 · yí · to leave behind 笑 (literal) → 笑 · xiào · to ridicule 大方 (literal) → 大方 · dà​fāng · expert

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

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