閖槍头

閖槍頭

làqiāngtóu

idiom

Meanings

1 someone all show and no substance
2 a pewter spearhead that looks good but is useless

Characters

pewter (variant of 镴)

Examples

别看他说得天花乱坠，不过是个閖槍头。

Bié kàn tā shuō de tiānhuāluànzhuì, bùguò shì ge làqiāngtóu.

Don't let his dazzling talk fool you — he's all flash and no substance.

这种閖槍头产品，样子好看却不耐用。

Zhè zhǒng làqiāngtóu chǎnpǐn, yàngzi hǎokàn què bù nàiyòng.

This kind of 'pewter spearhead' product looks great but doesn't hold up.

Tips

history

閖 is a variant of 镴 (pewter, a tin-lead alloy that looks like silver). The full saying 银样閖槍头 appears in 《西游记》 and 《红楼梦》 to mock things that glitter like silver but crumple on contact.

Stroke Order

閖 là

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