put one 's hand to one 's mouth to hide one 's laughter(yǎn kǒu hú lú)

put one 's hand to one 's mouth to hide one 's laughter

Masked gourd, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ǎ NK ǒ uh ú L ú, which means laughing with your mouth covered. It comes from the biography of Ying Shao in the later Han Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

According to the biography of Ying Shao in the book of the later Han Dynasty, "in the past, Zheng people used dried rats as their purples, which were used in Zhou Dynasty; in Song Dynasty, Yu Fu also used Yan Shi as his treasure, 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. "

Idiom usage

To laugh in secret. I can't help but think that I made such a joke. Feng Yuxiang's my life Chapter 16

Analysis of Idioms

Hide one's tongue

Chinese PinYin : yǎn kǒu hú lú