脸上贴金 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 臉上貼金 liǎnshàngtiējīn ㄌㄧㄢˇ ㄕㄤˋ ㄊㄧㄝ ㄐㄧㄣ to apply gold leaf to the face of a statue (idiom) lit. to talk up to extol the virtues of (oneself or sb else) fig. Character by character 脸(liǎn)face 上(shàng)up 贴(tiē)stick 金(jīn)surname Jin A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0