跳梁小丑
tiào​liáng​xiǎo​chǒu

contemptible buffoon

  • created sense approved 跳梁小丑 · tiào​liáng​xiǎo​chǒu · contemptible buffoon — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    跳梁小丑

    tiào​liáng​xiǎo​chǒu

    contemptible buffoon

    (idiom) a clownish troublemaker; a contemptible person who makes a lot of noise or stirs up trouble but is ultimately incapable of achieving anything significant

    跳梁 (literal) → 跳梁 · tiào​liáng · to run rampant 小丑 (literal) → 小丑/小醜 · xiǎo​chǒu · clown

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

    created sense