make grand gestures(zhuāng qiāng zuò shì)

make grand gestures

Affectation is a Chinese idiom, which is pronounced as "Zhang Qing" or "Shu". It means deliberately pretending a tone or a gesture, which is used to describe deliberate affectation. It's from the story of the West Lake, the rhyme of Xiling.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] bravado, pretend to be deaf and dumb

Idiom usage

This kind of work, without real feelings, is not worth reading at all.

The origin of Idioms

"The lady doesn't have to worry. He has asked me not to go these two or three days, so he puts on airs." Luo guangbin, Yang Yiyan, Chapter 13 of red rock: "Yu Xinjiang looks at this unreasonable and feigned enemy and clenches his fist angrily." Lao She: he doesn't have the bad habit of being late and leaving early.

Chinese PinYin : zhuāng qiāng zuò shì