飞机上扔相片,丢人不知高低 飛機上扔相片,丟人不知高低 飛機上扔相片,丟人不知高低

throwing a photo from a plane: dropping a person, not knowing high or low

Saying俗语俗語

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

Meaning
Mocks someone who speaks or acts without sense of proportion and disgraces themselves.
Wordplay
丢人 (diūrén) means both dropping the person in the photo and losing face; 高低 (gāodī) means height and also a sense of propriety.
Simplified
飞机上扔相片,丢人不知高低
Traditional (Taiwan)
飛機上扔相片,丟人不知高低
Pinyin
fēijī shang rēng xiàngpiān,diūrén bùzhīgāodī
Pinyin (Taiwan)
fēijī shàng rēng xiàngpiān,diūrén bùzhīgāodī
Bopomofo
ㄈㄟ ㄐㄧ ㄕㄤˋ ㄖㄥ ㄒㄧㄤˋ ㄆㄧㄢ,ㄉㄧㄡ ㄖㄣˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄓ ㄍㄠ ㄉㄧ

Written with HSK 7-9 vocabulary, at CEFR level C1.

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