打馬虎眼

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Chinese

beat; strike; break
beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen
 
eye
trad. (打馬虎眼) 馬虎
simp. (打马虎眼) 马虎

Pronunciation


Verb

打⫽馬虎眼 (verb-object)

  1. (dialectal) to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to gloss it over; to act dumb