文过饰非

to cover up one's faults (idiom) / to whitewash
(idiom) to cover up one's faults; to whitewash

Characters and words in 文过饰非

language / culture / writing / formal / literary / gentle / (old) classifier for coins / Kangxi radical 67

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a thick book.

Willy Walrus (w) wants to cook in the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2). The recipe book (文) is extremely greasy and Willy doesn't want it to touch anything, nor touch it. That's why he puts it into a beret (亠) so that it doesn't touch the floor, and uses pliers (乂) to turn the pages.
surname Guo
to cross / to go over / to pass (time) / to celebrate (a holiday) / to live / to get along / excessively / too-

= + : Gitta Giraffe is trying out her new gladiator sandals in the observatory's bathroom. She's even able to cross a puddle of water with them by just walking on the water, so thumbs up for her!
(experienced action marker)
decoration / ornament / to decorate / to adorn / to hide / to conceal (a fault) / excuse (to hide a fault) / to play a role (in opera) / to impersonate

= + : Sherlock Holmes (sh) has been hiding in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) to find out who has been smearing ornaments (饰) to the walls. One night he finally observes an intruder masked with an eye mask (布) smearing greasy lines on the wall using a Chinese cruller (饣).
abbr. for 非洲[Fei1 zhou1], Africa
to not be; not / wrong; incorrect / non-; un-; in-; de- / to reproach; to blame / (coll.) to insist on; simply must

= + 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: a negative film (photography)

= + 丿 + : Frankenstein's monster made an effort to photograph the Eiffel Tower, but now his negative is a big mess. In front of the tower her set up a camera on a Cartesian coordinate system as a tripod, and he attached a banana and a dinosaur bone to the camera so that he can finely tune the angles. All was for naught as he now holds the messed up negative in his hands.

Words with 文过饰非

文过饰非 is not used as a component in another word.

Sentences with 文过饰非

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