The walls have ears.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
隔墙有耳
the walls have ears (idiom)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
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the walls have ears (idiom)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 隔墙有耳 actually appears in real sentences.
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Be careful what you say, Andrea; the walls have ears.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 隔墙有耳.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 隔墙有耳.
Directly before
- 小心隔墙有耳1
Directly after
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 隔墙有耳
What does 隔墙有耳 mean in Chinese?
隔墙有耳 (géqiángyǒuěr) means the walls have ears (idiom).
How do you pronounce 隔墙有耳?
隔墙有耳 is pronounced géqiángyǒuěr.
Is 隔墙有耳 an HSK word?
隔墙有耳 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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