虚张声势 — Chinese idiom
虚张声势
xū zhāng shēng shì
Traditional: 虛張聲勢
Meaning
- to bluff; to bluster; to make an empty show of strength
Character by character
- 虚xūfalse; worthless, hollow, empty; vain
- 张zhāngto display; to expand, to open; to stretch; a shee
- 声shēngsound, noise; voice, tone, music
- 势shìpower, force; tendency, attitude
Idioms sharing a character
- 不虚此行 bù xū cǐ xíng
- 乘虚而入 chéng xū ér rù
- 以虚带实 yǐ xū dài shí
- 做贼心虚 zuò zéi xīn xū
- 名不虚传 míng bù xū chuán
- 向壁虚构 xiàng bì xū gòu
- 向壁虚造 xiàng bì xū zào
- 子虚乌有 zǐ xū wū yǒu
- 弄虚作假 nòng xū zuò jiǎ
- 形同虚设 xíng tóng xū shè
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