坑蒙拐骗 — Chinese idiom
坑蒙拐骗
kēng mēng guǎi piàn
Traditional: 坑蒙拐騙
Meaning
- to swindle, scam and deceive
Character by character
- 坑kēngpit, hole; to trap, to bury; to harry
- 蒙mēngto cover; to deceive; Mongolia
- 拐guǎito kidnap, to abduct; to turn; crutch
- 骗piànto cheat, to defraud, to swindle
Idioms sharing a character
- 满坑满谷 mǎn kēng mǎn gǔ
- 跳出火坑 tiào chū huǒ kēng
- 避坑落井 bì kēng luò jǐng
- 吴下阿蒙 Wú xià ā Méng
- 蒙在鼓里 méng zài gǔ lǐ
- 蒙昧无知 méng mèi wú zhī
- 七弯八拐 qī wān bā guǎi
- 拐弯抹角 guǎi wān mò jiǎo
- 曲里拐弯 qū lǐ guǎi wān
- 上当受骗 shàng dàng shòu piàn
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