给根棒槌认作针
Sign up for a free account to save words and hear them read aloud
-
to be so gullible as to take something fake for the real thing
Character by character
Saying俗语俗語
Idiom惯用语 · Rarely used now
- Literally
- given a wooden club, takes it for a needle
- Meaning
- Describes someone so gullible that they take something fake for the real thing. It is mocking.
- Wordplay
- 针 (zhēn, needle) puns on 真 (zhēn, real): taking the club for a needle is taking it for real.
Sign up for a free Chinese Boost account
Save the words and sentences you find here to your own list, and hear them
read aloud. You can export the list to your flashcards whenever you like.
Create a free account
Sources