闹太套

Traditional form:

鬧太套

Pinyin (reading):

nàotàitào

Definitions:

• (Internet slang) transcription of "not at all" – English words in a song promoting the 2008 Beijing Olympics sung by Huang Xiaoming 黃曉明／黄晓明 ( Huáng Xiǎomíng), who became a laughing stock in China because his pronunciation was perceived as embarrassingly bad
• to be a laughing stock
• to make a fool of oneself (i.e. equivalent to 鬧笑話／闹笑话 (nàoxiàohua))

Characters:

• 闹 - busy, lively; to dispute, to quarrel
• 太 - very, too much; big; extreme
• 套 - case, cover, envelope, wrapper

Traditional characters:

• 鬧 - busy, lively; to dispute, to quarrel
• 太 - very, too much; big; extreme
• 套 - case, cover, envelope, wrapper