garish(huā lǐ hú shào)

garish

Colorful, Chinese idiom, pronounced Hu ā L ǐ h ú sh à o, describes the color is too bright and complicated, also refers to flashy but not real. It comes from Wu Jingzi's scholars.

The origin of Idioms

The 29th chapter of the scholars written by Wu Jingzi in Qing Dynasty: "when you enter the room together, you can see that the desk is full of selected engraved articles, the red pen is right, and the style is flowery." Chapter 11 of journey to the west by Wu Chengen of Ming Dynasty: "my house is a cool tile house, not like the yellow house, the door leaf of the fox whistle!" (Liu Quan, who offered melons for Li Shimin, the king of the Tang Dynasty, was lucky to have his dead wife Li Cuilian come back to life because of his loyalty to the king of hell in the ten halls. After he was revived by the corpse of Yu Ying, the Royal sister of the Tang Dynasty.)

Analysis of Idioms

Hualihushao

Idiom usage

[grammar] combined; used as attributive and adverbial; figurative flashy but not real

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