Spread your eyebrows and cover your eyes(pū méi shàn yǎn)

Spread your eyebrows and cover your eyes

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is p ū m é ISH à NY à n, which means to pretend or have a model. It's from Peidu huandai.

Analysis of Idioms

Put on airs

The origin of Idioms

The first fold of Pei Du Huan Dai written by Guan Hanqing in Yuan Dynasty: "one by one, make up a little."

Idiom usage

It's a combination; it's a predicate and an attribute; it's derogatory; it's pretentious. Example Zhang Mingshan of Yuan Dynasty wrote "the song of water fairy spreading eyebrows and covering eyes": "spreading eyebrows and covering eyes, early Sangong, enjoying Wanzhong with bare arms and fists." Chapter 50 of Jin Ping Mei: "I saw him spread his eyebrows in front of people, and he was in the class. He was very eloquent and only called him master Xue." The 18th chapter of the romance of awakening the world written by Xi Zhou Sheng in Qing Dynasty: "one is smooth and eloquent, and the other is sharp and talkative." The second fold of Yuan Ma Zhiyuan's a dream of yellow sorghum: "I want to be a Grand Marshal. I want to be a Grand Marshal. What's the reason for you to do such things?" The fourth fold of Dai Shanfu's "beautiful scenery" in Yuan Dynasty: "I say that you are a real gentleman, and you are the most ignorant and deceiving child."

Chinese PinYin : pū méi shàn yǎn