热脸贴冷屁股
Traditional form:
熱臉貼冷屁股
Pinyin (reading):
rèliǎntiēlěngpìgu
Definitions:
- to show warm feelings but meet with cold rebuke (idiom)
- to be snubbed despite showing good intentions
Characters:
- 热 - heat, fever, zeal
- 脸 - face, cheek; reputation
- 贴 - to stick, to paste; attached; allowance, subsidy
- 冷 - cold, cool; lonely
- 屁 - to break wind, to fart; the buttocks
- 股 - share, portion; thighs, haunches, rump
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