- lit. Lord Ye's passion for dragons (idiom)
- fig. to pretend to be fond of sth while actually fearing it
- ostensible fondness of sth one really fears
Characters
- 叶 (叶): to be in harmony
- 公 (公): public; collectively owned; common; international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar); make public; fair; just; Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; honorable (gentlemen); father-in-law; male (animal)
- 好 (好): good; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello
- 龙 (龍): surname Long
Resources
- Wiktionary: 叶公好龙
- MDBG: 叶公好龙
- Examples with 叶公好龙 on Tatoeba
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