keep up appearances and be wasteful(pū zhāng yáng lì)
keep up appearances and be wasteful
Extravagance, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is p ū zh ā ngy á NGL ì, meaning too much attention to ostentation. It comes from Xie Shangbiao, the governor of Chaozhou.
The origin of Idioms
Han Yu, Tang Dynasty, wrote "as a song poem, it is a great achievement to recommend the suburban temple, to seal the Jitai mountain, to carve out the white jade, to spread the Hongxiu to the heaven, and to make great efforts."
Idiom usage
As a predicate or attributive; over exaggeration. As soon as he arrives at his post, he will do this and that. When will he see a success! (the 21st chapter of Wu Jianren's twenty years of witnessing the strange situation in Qing Dynasty).
Analysis of Idioms
Extravagance and waste
Chinese PinYin : pū zhāng yáng lì
keep up appearances and be wasteful
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