Much ado about nothing.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
庸人自扰
lit. silly people get their panties in a bunch (idiom)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
lit. silly people get their panties in a bunch (idiom)
02
fig. to get upset over nothing
03
to make problems for oneself
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 庸人自扰 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 庸人自扰 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 庸人自扰.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 庸人自扰.
Directly before
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
Directly after
- 庸人自扰之1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 庸人自扰
What does 庸人自扰 mean in Chinese?
庸人自扰 (yōngrénzìrǎo) means lit. silly people get their panties in a bunch (idiom).
How do you pronounce 庸人自扰?
庸人自扰 is pronounced yōngrénzìrǎo.
Is 庸人自扰 an HSK word?
庸人自扰 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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