China Naming Network - Baby naming - Cover your ears and steal the bell, deceive yourself and guess the zodiac.

Cover your ears and steal the bell, deceive yourself and guess the zodiac.

Stealing the bell: the basic explanation: stealing the bell covers your ears for fear that others will hear it. Metaphorically, you are deceiving yourself, and you must try to cover up what you can't cover up clearly.

Pinyin pronunciation: y m ě n r d à o l í ng

Synonym group: self-deception, self-defeating

Antonym group: openness and frankness

Usage: linkage type; As predicate, attribute and adverbial; derogatory sense

The origin of the idiom: Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals knows: "If people have a clock, if they want to leave, the clock will be too big to fail. Destroy it with vertebrae, and the bell will ring. I am afraid that people will smell it and take it away, covering their ears. "