打马虎眼

打馬虎眼
dǎmǎhuyǎn
idiom

Meanings

  1. 1 to play dumb
  2. 2 to slack off
  3. 3 to fudge through
  4. 4 to deliberately be vague to dodge a question

Examples

Bié gēn wǒ dǎ mǎhuyǎn, lǎoshí shuō!
Don't play dumb with me — tell the truth!
Tā gōngzuò zǒng ài dǎ mǎhuyǎn, lǎobǎn zǎo jiù kànbúxiàqù le.
He's always slacking off at work — the boss has had enough.

Tips

memory
马虎 (mǎhu) means 'careless'; ... ('to put on... eyes') means 'to wear an expression of...'. Together: 'to put on a careless expression' = pretend confusion to wriggle out of something. The is neutral tone here.

Stroke Order

yǎn