粪堆上开花儿,臭美糞堆上開花兒,臭美糞堆上開花兒,臭美

flowers blooming on a dung heap: stinking beautiful

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Two-part saying歇后语歇後語 · Widely known

Meaning: Mocks someone who shows off or preens in a clumsy way and thinks they look great. It's mocking, and 臭美 means being smugly vain.
Wordplay: 臭美 (chòuměi) is read literally as "smelly yet pretty" for flowers on dung, and figuratively as "smugly vain."

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Simplified: 粪堆上开花儿,臭美
Traditional (Taiwan): 糞堆上開花兒,臭美
Pinyin: fènduī shàng kāihuār,chòuměi
Bopomofo: ㄈㄣˋ ㄉㄨㄟㄕㄤˋ ㄎㄞㄏㄨㄚㄦ,ㄔㄡˋ ㄇㄟˇ

Written with HSK 1 vocabulary, at CEFR level A1.

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