plug one 's ears while stealing a bell(sāi ěr tōu líng)

plug one 's ears while stealing a bell

It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is s ā I ě RT ō UL í ng, which means to refer to one's foolish behavior of deceiving oneself. It comes from the five Lantern Festival yuan xuefengcun Zen master FASI.

Notes on Idioms

Plug the ear: 1. It means not to listen intentionally.

The origin of Idioms

"Five Lantern Festival yuan · xuefengcun Zen master FASI" says: "such a view is to lose the bottom of the heresy, the ghost does not scatter the bottom of the dead, to be indifferent, to be ignorant, to steal the bell, to deceive oneself."

Idiom usage

To deceive oneself is to deceive others.

Chinese PinYin : sāi ěr tōu líng