没头没脸 — Chinese idiom
没头没脸
méi tóu méi liǎn
Traditional: 沒頭沒臉
Meaning
- lit. without head, without face
- fig. frenzily
- haphazardly
Character by character
- 没méinot, none, gone; to bury; to sink, to drown
- 头tóuhead; chief, boss; first, top
- 没méinot, none, gone; to bury; to sink, to drown
- 脸liǎnface, cheek; reputation
Idioms sharing a character
- 全军覆没 quán jūn fù mò
- 功不可没 gōng bù kě mò
- 没事找事 méi shì zhǎo shì
- 没吃没穿 méi chī méi chuān
- 没齿难忘 mò chǐ nán wàng
- 神出鬼没 shén chū guǐ mò
- 三天两头 sān tiān liǎng tóu
- 三头六臂 sān tóu liù bì
- 事到临头 shì dào lín tóu
- 傻头傻脑 shǎ tóu shǎ nǎo
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