Cover one's mouth(yǎn kǒu hú lú)

Cover one's mouth

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ǎ NK ǒ uh ú L ú, which means laughing with your mouth covered, refers to snickering. It comes from the biography of Ying Shao in the book of the later Han Dynasty by Fan Ye of the Southern Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

In the Southern Dynasty, Fan Ye of the Song Dynasty wrote in the book of the later Han Dynasty, yingshao biography: "in the past, Zheng people used dried rats as their purses, which were used in the Zhou Dynasty; in the Song Dynasty, Yufu also treasured Yanshi, which was used in ten times. The man who sees it covers his mouth and laughs. It's a refined custom. It's nothing like Zhan. "

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: smile behind your lips

Idiom usage

As predicate and attribute, it refers to snickering and example, which is regarded as reserved, hiding one's tongue and laughing. Pu Songling's strange stories from a lonely studio

Chinese PinYin : yǎn kǒu hú lú