冒大不韪

to face opprobrium (idiom)

old variant of 冒[mao4]

surname Mao

to emit / to give off / to send out (or up, forth) / to brave / to face / reckless / to falsely adopt (sb's identity etc) / to feign / (literary) to cover

see 大夫[dai4 fu5]

big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

no; not so / (bound form) not; un-

great error / heinous crime

fault / error

correct / right