得便宜卖乖 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 得便宜賣乖 dépiányimàiguāi ㄉㄜˊ ㄆㄧㄢˊ ˙ㄧ ㄇㄞˋ ㄍㄨㄞ to have benefited from sth but pretend otherwise to claim to be hard done by, even though one has benefited Character by character 得(dé)get 便(pián)plain 宜(yi)surname Yi 卖(mài)sell 乖(guāi)obedient, well-behaved A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0