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打馬虎眼

简打马虎眼 · 繁打馬虎眼

Mandarin · pinyin dǎ mǎ hu yǎn

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3–3–5–3 · da3 ma3 hu5 yan3

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daa2 maa1 fu1 ngaan5

Pleco · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Word reading; meanings not aligned.

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(dialectal) to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to gloss it over; to act dumb