消愁解闷
Traditional form:
消愁解悶
Pinyin (reading):
xiāochóujiěmèn
Definitions:
- lit. to eliminate worry and dispel melancholy (idiom); diversion from boredom
- to dispel depression or melancholy
- to relieve stress
- a relaxing pass-time
Characters:
- 消 - news, rumors; to die out, to melt away, to vanish
- 愁 - anxious, worried
- 解 - to explain; to loosen; to unfasten, to untie
- 闷 - gloomy, depressed, melancholy
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