原形毕露 — Chinese idiom
原形毕露
yuán xíng bì lù
Traditional: 原形畢露
Meaning
- original identity fully revealed ; fig. to unmask and expose the whole truth
Character by character
- 原yuánsource, origin, beginning
- 形xíngform, shape; to appear; to describe; to look
- 毕bìto finish, to conclude, to end; completed
- 露lùdew; leak; bare, exposed; to reveal, to show
Idioms sharing a character
- 原来如此 yuán lái rú cǐ
- 原封不动 yuán fēng bù dòng
- 问鼎中原 wèn dǐng Zhōng yuán
- 物归原主 wù guī yuán zhǔ
- 略迹原情 lüè jì yuán qíng
- 逐鹿中原 zhú lù Zhōng yuán
- 喜形于色 xǐ xíng yú sè
- 土木形骸 tǔ mù xíng hái
- 奇形怪状 qí xíng guài zhuàng
- 如影随形 rú yǐng suí xíng
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