口不应心
口不应心
kǒu bù yìng xīn
to say one thing but mean another; to dissimulate
verb
Traditional: 口不應心
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- (verb) to say one thing but mean another
- to dissimulate
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Related Words
一波未平，一波又起(yī bō wèi píng , yī bō yòu qǐ)· before the first wave subsides, a new wave rises (idiom); a new problem arises before the old is solved
→张冠李戴(Zhāng guān Lǐ dài)· lit. to put Zhang's hat on Li's head
→彼一时此一时(bǐ yī shí cǐ yī shí)· that was one thing, and this is another
→明修栈道，暗渡陈仓(míng xiū zhàn dào , àn dù Chén cāng)· lit. repair the plank road by day while secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wei4 He2] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3] of Chu)
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