魚目混珠
yú​mù​hùn​zhū

to pass off fakes as genuine

  • created sense approved 鱼目混珠/魚目混珠 · yú​mù​hùn​zhū · to pass off fakes as genuine — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    鱼目混珠 / 魚目混珠

    yú​mù​hùn​zhū

    to pass off fakes as genuine

    Literally meaning "to mix fish eyes with pearls", this idiom describes passing off something fake or low-quality as the real thing or something of high value.

    鱼 (literal) → 鱼/魚 · yú · fish 目 (literal) → 目 · mù · eye 混 (literal) → 混 · hùn · to mix 珠 (literal) → 珠 · zhū · pearl

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

    created sense