Vocabulary
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| 防患于未然 防患於未然 | to prevent troubles before the event (idiom); to forestall; to nip sth in the bud | Idiom |
| 昭然若揭 昭然若揭 | abundantly clear | Idiom |
| 拭目以待 拭目以待 | lit. to wipe one's eyes and wait (idiom); to wait and see | Idiom |
| 瞎说 瞎說 | to talk drivel; to assert sth without a proper understanding or basis in fact; not to know what one is talking about | Xiehouyu |
| 心虚 心虛 | lacking in confidence; diffident; to have a guilty conscience | Xiehouyu |
| 出格 出格 | to overstep the bounds of what is proper; to take sth too far; (of a measuring device) to go off the scale | Xiehouyu |
| 难缠 難纏 | (usu. of people) difficult; demanding; troublesome; unreasonable; hard to deal with | Xiehouyu |
| 高攀 高攀 | social climbing; to claim connections with people in higher social class | Xiehouyu |
| 坚不可摧 堅不可摧 | (idiom) invulnerable; indestructible; impregnable | Xiehouyu |
| 自作主张 自作主張 | (idiom) to act on one's own; to decide for oneself | Xiehouyu |
| 自作多情 自作多情 | to imagine that one's love is reciprocated; to shower affection on an uninterested party | Xiehouyu |
| 胡扯 胡扯 | to chatter; nonsense; blather | Xiehouyu |
| 迷迷糊糊 迷迷糊糊 | in a daze; bewildered | Xiehouyu |
| 数不清 數不清 | countless; innumerable | Xiehouyu |
| 混日子 混日子 | to idle; to waste time | Xiehouyu |
| 欺人太甚 欺人太甚 | (idiom) to bully intolerably | Xiehouyu |
| 明明白白 明明白白 | 明: bright, light, brilliant; clear · 明: bright, light, brilliant; clear · 白: white; pure, unblemished; bright · 白: white; pure, unblemished; bright | Xiehouyu |
| 吃不消 吃不消 | to be unable to tolerate or endure; to find sth difficult to manage | Xiehouyu |
| 露馅 露餡 | to leak; to expose (sb's secret); to spill the beans; to let the cat out of the bag | Xiehouyu |
| 一家之主 一家之主 | master of the house; head of the family | Xiehouyu |
| 讨人嫌 討人嫌 | unpleasant; disagreeable | Xiehouyu |
| 小媳妇 小媳婦 | young married woman; mistress; (fig.) punching bag; (old) child bride | Xiehouyu |
| 万事如意 萬事如意 | to have all one's wishes (idiom); best wishes; all the best; may all your hopes be fulfilled | Xiehouyu |
| 装模作样 裝模作樣 | (idiom) to put on an act; to show affectation; to indulge in histrionics | Xiehouyu |
| 多多益善 多多益善 | the more the better | Xiehouyu |
| 靠天吃饭 靠天吃飯 | 靠: lean on, trust, depend on; near · 天: sky, heaven; god, celestial · 吃: eat; drink; suffer, endure, bear · 饭: cooked rice; food, meal | Xiehouyu |
| 缩成一团 縮成一團 | to huddle together; to curl up | Xiehouyu |
| 自欺欺人 自欺欺人 | to deceive others and to deceive oneself; to believe one's own lies | Xiehouyu |
| 自顾不暇 自顧不暇 | (idiom) to have one's hands full managing one's own affairs; too busy to spare time for anything extra | Xiehouyu |
| 老死不相往来 老死不相往來 | 老: old, aged; experienced · 死: die; dead; death · 不: no, not; un-; negative prefix · 相: mutual, reciprocal, each other · 往: go, depart; past, formerly · 来: come, coming; return, returning | Xiehouyu |
| 一厢情愿 一廂情願 | one's own wishful thinking | Xiehouyu |
| 势利眼 勢利眼 | snobbish; a snob | Xiehouyu |
| 走下坡路 走下坡路 | to go downhill; to decline; to slump | Xiehouyu |
| 撒手不管 撒手不管 | to stand aside and do nothing (idiom); to take no part in | Xiehouyu |
| 无理取闹 無理取鬧 | to make trouble without reason (idiom); to be deliberately provocative | Xiehouyu |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 一模一样 一模一樣 | exactly the same (idiom); carbon copy; also pr. [yī mó yī yàng] | Xiehouyu |
| 不通 不通 | to be obstructed; to be blocked up; to be impassable; to make no sense; to be illogical | Xiehouyu |
| 同行 同行 | person of the same profession; of the same trade, occupation or industry | Xiehouyu |
| 闺蜜 閨蜜 | (coll.) (a woman's) close female friend; bestie | Colloquialism |
| 甭管 甭管 | (coll.) regardless of; no matter (where, who etc) | Colloquialism |
| 不赖 不賴 | (coll.) not bad; good; fine | Colloquialism |
| 添乱 添亂 | (coll.) to cause trouble for sb; to inconvenience | Colloquialism |
| 归置 歸置 | (coll.) to put (things) back; to tidy up; to put in order | Colloquialism |
| 懒虫 懶蟲 | (coll.) lazybones | Colloquialism |
| 蹦跶 蹦躂 | (coll.) to jump about; to be active; to be lively; (coll.) (fig.) to struggle (before succumbing); to be alive and kicking (esp. toward the end of one's life) | Colloquialism |
| 泡汤 泡湯 | (coll.) to fizzle out; to come to nothing; to dawdle; to stall; (Tw) to have a soak in a hot spring bath | Colloquialism |
| 蹭饭 蹭飯 | (coll.) to mooch a meal | Colloquialism |
| 死缠烂打 死纏爛打 | (coll.) to pester; to harass | Colloquialism |
| 碰瓷 碰瓷 | (coll.) to scam sb by setting up an "accident" in which one appears to have sustained damage or injury caused by the scam victim, then demanding compensation (variations include putting "expensive" porcelain in a place where it is likely to | Colloquialism |