冷嘲热讽 — Chinese idiom
冷嘲热讽
lěng cháo rè fěng
Traditional: 冷嘲熱諷
Meaning
- frigid irony and scorching satire ; to mock and ridicule
Character by character
- 冷lěngcold, cool; lonely
- 嘲cháoto deride, to jeer at, to ridicule, to scorn
- 热rèheat, fever, zeal
- 讽fěngsarcastic; to chant, to mock, to ridicule
Idioms sharing a character
- 冷眼旁观 lěng yǎn páng guān
- 冷言冷语 lěng yán lěng yǔ
- 冷语冰人 lěng yǔ bīng rén
- 打入冷宫 dǎ rù lěng gōng
- 枕冷衾寒 zhěn lěng qīn hán
- 知冷知热 zhī lěng zhī rè
- 打得火热 dǎ de huǒ rè
- 水深火热 shuǐ shēn huǒ rè
- 炙手可热 zhì shǒu kě rè
- 热情洋溢 rè qíng yáng yì
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