make eyes at a man(àn sòng qiū bō)

make eyes at a man

It is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is "ANNs" and "Qingqi" in Chinese. In the old days, it used to mean that a beautiful woman's eyes are like the clear water waves in autumn. It means that she looks at each other in secret. From the book of history, Wu Cheng.

Idiom explanation

Autumn wave: the water wave in autumn, which refers to the clear and bright eyes of beautiful women. seeing someone in the dark: it refers to a beautiful woman who looks at her in the dark. It is also a metaphor for secretly flattering or colluding with others.

The origin of Idioms

Song Sushi's poem "baibuhong" (2): the beautiful woman is not willing to return to the autumn, but the young people want to talk about the flying shuttle

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] eye to eye, pulse to pulse, eye to eye [antonym] blatant

Idiom usage

It is a metaphor of flattery and collusion. For example, Zhang (zuolin) was in close collusion with Cao (Kun). In the first, second and fourth chapters of the popular romance of the Republic of China written by Cai Dongfan and Xu Xun's father, the eyebrows come, the eyes go, and the eyes go. A private glimpse of guazhier by Feng Menglong in Ming Dynasty

Chinese PinYin : àn sòng qiū bō