做贼心虚 — Chinese idiom
做贼心虚
zuò zéi xīn xū
Traditional: 做賊心虛
Meaning
- to feel guilty as a thief ; to have sth on one's conscience
Character by character
- 做zuòto work, to make; to act
- 贼zéithief, traitor; cunning, sly
- 心xīnheart; mind; soul
- 虚xūfalse; worthless, hollow, empty; vain
Idioms sharing a character
- 做好做歹 zuò hǎo zuò dǎi
- 做张做势 zuò zhāng zuò shì
- 做张做智 zuò zhāng zuò zhì
- 光说不做 guāng shuō bù zuò
- 好吃懒做 hào chī lǎn zuò
- 小题大做 xiǎo tí dà zuò
- 说到做到 shuō dào zuò dào
- 乱臣贼子 luàn chén zéi zǐ
- 擒贼擒王 qín zéi qín wáng
- 民贼独夫 mín zéi dú fū
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