蜚短流长 — Chinese idiom
蜚短流长
fēi duǎn liú cháng
Traditional: 蜚短流長
Meaning
- to gossip about others; to spread gossip or rumors
Character by character
- 蜚fēicockroach
- 短duǎnbrief, short; deficient, lacking
- 流liúto flow, to drift, to circulate; class
- 长chánglong, lasting; to excel in
Idioms sharing a character
- 流言蜚语 liú yán fēi yǔ
- 一长一短 yī cháng yī duǎn
- 截长补短 jié cháng bǔ duǎn
- 扬长避短 yáng cháng bì duǎn
- 残年短景 cán nián duǎn jǐng
- 争长论短 zhēng cháng lùn duǎn
- 短中抽长 duǎn zhōng chōu cháng
- 短兵相接 duǎn bīng xiāng jiē
- 短小精悍 duǎn xiǎo jīng hàn
- 纸短情长 zhǐ duǎn qíng cháng
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