招摇撞骗 — Chinese idiom
招摇撞骗
zhāo yáo zhuàng piàn
Traditional: 招搖撞騙
Meaning
- to dupe people by passing oneself off as a well-connected individual or a figure of authority
Character by character
- 招zhāoto summon; to recruit; to levy
- 摇yáoto rock, to shake; to swing, to wave
- 撞zhuàngto bump into, to collide, to hit, to knock against
- 骗piànto cheat, to defraud, to swindle
Idioms sharing a character
- 招兵买马 zhāo bīng mǎi mǎ
- 招摇过市 zhāo yáo guò shì
- 招蜂引蝶 zhāo fēng yǐn dié
- 招贤纳士 zhāo xián nà shì
- 招降纳叛 zhāo xiáng nà pàn
- 招风惹草 zhāo fēng rě cǎo
- 扬幡招魂 yáng fān zhāo hún
- 树大招风 shù dà zhāo fēng
- 目挑心招 mù tiǎo xīn zhāo
- 花枝招展 huā zhī zhāo zhǎn
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