墙上挂狗皮,不像画牆上掛狗皮,不像畫牆上掛狗皮,不像畫

hanging a dog skin on the wall: it doesn't look like a picture

Saying俗语俗語

Two-part saying歇后语歇後語 · Rarely used now

Meaning: What someone says or does is unreasonable or makes no sense. Mocking or critical.
Wordplay: 画 (huà, picture) is used for 话 (huà, speech): 'doesn't look like a picture' sounds like 'doesn't sound like talk'.

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Simplified: 墙上挂狗皮,不像画
Traditional (Taiwan): 牆上掛狗皮,不像畫
Pinyin: qiáng shàng guà gǒu pí,bú xiàng huà
Bopomofo: ㄑㄧㄤˊ ㄕㄤˋ ㄍㄨㄚˋ ㄍㄡˇ ㄆㄧˊ,ㄅㄨˊ ㄒㄧㄤˋ ㄏㄨㄚˋ

Written with HSK 6 vocabulary, at CEFR level B2.

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