家丑不可外扬
Traditional form:
家醜不可外揚
Pinyin (reading):
jiāchǒubùkěwàiyáng
Definitions:
- lit. family shames must not be spread abroad (idiom)
- fig. don't wash your dirty linen in public
Characters:
- 家 - house, home, residence; family
- 丑 - ugly; shameful; comedian, clown
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 可 - may, can, -able; possibly
- 外 - out, outside, external; foreign; in addition
- 扬 - to flutter, to wave; to hoist, to raise; to praise
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