Read Edit View history 掩耳盗铃 yǎn'ěrdàolíng self-deception Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 掩耳盗铃 (掩耳盜鈴) yǎn'ěrdàolíng self-deception idiom to deceive oneself; to ignore the obvious truth in a futile attempt to fool others or avoid a problem. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.240 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.461 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
掩耳盗铃 (掩耳盜鈴) yǎn'ěrdàolíng self-deception idiom to deceive oneself; to ignore the obvious truth in a futile attempt to fool others or avoid a problem. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.240 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.461 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)