敷衍了事 Save Sign in to save words fūyǎnliǎoshì ㄈㄨ ㄧㄢˇ ㄌㄧㄠˇ ㄕˋ to do things half-heartedly to merely go through the motions idiom Character by character 敷(fū)spread 衍(yǎn)spread out 了(liǎo)finish 事(shì)matter A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0