装穷叫苦 — Chinese idiom
装穷叫苦
zhuāng qióng jiào kǔ
Traditional: 裝窮叫苦
Meaning
- to feign and complain bitterly of being poverty stricken
Character by character
- 装zhuāngdress, clothes, attire; to wear, to install
- 穷qióngpoor, destitute; to exhaust
- 叫jiàocry, shout; to call, to greet, to hail
- 苦kǔbitter; hardship, suffering
Idioms sharing a character
- 乔装打扮 qiáo zhuāng dǎ bàn
- 女扮男装 nǚ bàn nán zhuāng
- 男扮女装 nán bàn nǚ zhuāng
- 装傻充愣 zhuāng shǎ chōng lèng
- 装模作样 zhuāng mó zuò yàng
- 装疯卖傻 zhuāng fēng mài shǎ
- 装神弄鬼 zhuāng shén nòng guǐ
- 装点门面 zhuāng diǎn mén miàn
- 国弱民穷 guó ruò mín qióng
- 图穷匕见 tú qióng bǐ xiàn
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