笑裡藏刀

lit. a dagger hidden in smiles (idiom); friendly manners belying hypocritical intentions / when the fox preaches, look to the geese

old variant of 笑[xiao4]

laugh / smile / CL:個|个[ge4]

to laugh; to smile / to laugh at

Tibet / abbr. for Xizang or Tibet Autonomous Region 西藏[Xi1 zang4]

to conceal / to hide away / to harbor / to store / to collect

storehouse / depository / Buddhist or Taoist scripture

knife / blade / single-edged sword / cutlass / CL:把[ba3] / (slang) dollar (loanword) / classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper) / classifier for knife cuts or stabs

lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里[li3]