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瞒天账

瞞天賬
mántiānzhàng
idiom

Meanings

  1. 1 a cooked-up scheme to deceive
  2. 2 a cover-up; doctored accounts meant to fool everyone

Examples

他想搞个瞒天账，把亏损都藏起来。
Tā xiǎng gǎo ge mántiānzhàng, bǎ kuīsǔn dōu cáng qǐlái.
He's trying to cook the books to hide all the losses.
这种瞒天账早晚会被查出来。
Zhè zhǒng mántiānzhàng zǎowǎn huì bèi chá chūlái.
That kind of cover-up scheme will get found out sooner or later.

Tips

usage
Compare with 瞒天过海, also about grand deception. 瞒天账 is narrower: a deliberately falsified record or a trick plan meant to slip past everyone.

Stroke Order

瞒 mán
天 tiān
账 zhàng