平铺直叙 — Chinese idiom
平铺直叙
píng pū zhí xù
Traditional: 平鋪直敘
Meaning
- (neutral) to narrate in a plain, unaffected manner; (mildly critical) to recount events in a flat, colorless style
Character by character
- 平píngflat, level, even; peaceful
- 铺pūshop, store; bed, mattress
- 直zhístraight, vertical; candid, direct, frank
- 叙xùto express, to state; to relate, to narrate
Idioms sharing a character
- 一马平川 yī mǎ píng chuān
- 凹凸不平 āo tū bù píng
- 四平八稳 sì píng bā wěn
- 四海升平 sì hǎi shēng píng
- 坎坷不平 kǎn kě bù píng
- 天下太平 tiān xià tài píng
- 太平盛世 tài píng shèng shì
- 平地起家 píng dì qǐ jiā
- 平安无事 píng ān wú shì
- 平平无奇 píng píng wú qí
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