青蝇吊客
qīng​yíng​diào​kè

having no true friends

  • created reference approved 青蝇吊客/青蠅弔客 → 高朋满座/高朋滿座 (antonym) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    青蝇吊客 / 青蠅弔客 qīng​yíng​diào​kè

    高朋满座 / 高朋滿座 gāo​péng​mǎn​zuò

    antonym

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

    created reference

  • created sense approved 青蝇吊客/青蠅弔客 · qīng​yíng​diào​kè · having no true friends — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    青蝇吊客 / 青蠅弔客

    qīng​yíng​diào​kè

    having no true friends

    (idiom) used to describe someone who had no close friends in life and is only visited by flies after death; based on a historical quote by Yu Fan from the Records of the Three Kingdoms

    青蝇 (literal) → 青蝇/青蠅 · qīng​yíng · greenbottle fly 吊客 (literal) → 吊客/弔客 · diào​kè · mourner

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

    created sense