画地饼
Traditional (Taiwan):
畫地餅
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to placate people with empty promises
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Idiom惯用语 · Widely known
- Literally
- draw a cake on the ground
- Meaning
- To console or placate people with empty talk or fantasies, like the English 'pie in the sky'. Critical.
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