蒙在鼓里 — Chinese idiom
蒙在鼓里
méng zài gǔ lǐ
Traditional: 蒙在鼓裡
Meaning
- lit. kept inside a drum
- fig. completely in the dark
Character by character
- 蒙méngto cover; to deceive; Mongolia
- 在zàiat, in, on; to exist; used to indicate the present
- 鼓gǔdrum; to beat, to strike; to rouse
- 里lǐunit of distance equal to 0.5km; village; lane
Idioms sharing a character
- 吴下阿蒙 Wú xià ā Méng
- 坑蒙拐骗 kēng mēng guǎi piàn
- 蒙昧无知 méng mèi wú zhī
- 事在人为 shì zài rén wéi
- 胜券在握 shèng quàn zài wò
- 势在必得 shì zài bì dé
- 势在必行 shì zài bì xíng
- 危在旦夕 wēi zài dàn xī
- 命在旦夕 mìng zài dàn xī
- 在所不辞 zài suǒ bù cí
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