耸人听闻 — Chinese idiom
耸人听闻
sǒng rén tīng wén
Traditional: 聳人聽聞
Meaning
- to sensationalize ; deliberate exaggeration to scare people
Character by character
- 耸sǒngto excite, to urge; to raise; to shrug; lofty, tow
- 人rénman, person; people
- 听tīngto hear, to listen; to understand; to obey
- 闻wénnews; to hear, to smell; to make known
Idioms sharing a character
- 危言耸听 wēi yán sǒng tīng
- 高耸入云 gāo sǒng rù yún
- 一鸣惊人 yī míng jīng rén
- 三人成虎 sān rén chéng hǔ
- 不可告人 bù kě gào rén
- 不恤人言 bù xù rén yán
- 不甘人后 bù gān rén hòu
- 不甘后人 bù gān hòu rén
- 不近人情 bù jìn rén qíng
- 乘人不备 chéng rén bù bèi
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