múa rìu qua mắt thợ
Pronunciation
Northern
/mwaː˧˥ zi̤w˨˩ kwaː˧˧ mat˧˥ tʰə̰ːʔ˨˩/
Central
/mṵə˩˧ ʐiw˧˧ kwaː˧˥ ma̰k˩˧ tʰə̰ː˨˨/
Southern
/muə˧˥ ɹiw˨˩ waː˧˧ mak˧˥ tʰəː˨˩˨/
Listen
show off
Verb
show off
2 senses
Meaning
2 senses
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Meaning
2 senses
Sense 1
Verb
show off
Agreement, Evaluation, Critique
An idiom referring to showing off limited skills or knowledge in front of someone who is an expert in that field.
vi Đừng cố múa rìu qua mắt thợ trước một chuyên gia như anh ấy.
en Do not try to show off in front of an expert like him.
Sense 2
Verb
show off
Describing an immodest act of trying to display talent in front of someone who has a much higher level of expertise.
vi Hành động đó chẳng khác gì múa rìu qua mắt thợ.
en That action is nothing but showing off in front of a master.
Parts
𦨂鐐戈眜署
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Parts
𦨂鐐戈眜署
Chinese characters
Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
𦨂鐐戈眜署
Candidates by syllable
múa
𦨂
rìu
鐐（鉊 / 𠠙 / 𤖡）
qua
戈
mắt
眜
thợ
署（𠏲 / 𣞍）
Bold marks a representative candidate assembled from per-syllable character mappings. Parentheses show other candidates for the same syllable. It is not necessarily a source-aligned spelling for the whole word.