门面话
mén​miàn​huà

lip service

  • created sense approved 门面话/門面話 · mén​miàn​huà · lip service — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    门面话 / 門面話

    mén​miàn​huà

    lip service

    formal and insincere remarks; polite small talk used to keep up appearances or observe social etiquette

    门面 (literal) → 门面/門面 · mén​miàn · superficial 话 (literal) → 话/話 · huà · speech

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

    created sense