- lit. a dagger hidden in smiles (idiom); friendly manners belying hypocritical intentions
- when the fox preaches, look to the geese
Characters
- 笑 (咲): old variant of 笑[xiao4]
- 里 (裏): variant of 裡|里[li3]
- 藏 (藏): Tibet; abbr. for Xizang or Tibet Autonomous Region 西藏[Xi1 zang4]
- 刀 (刀): surname Dao
Resources
- Wiktionary: 笑里藏刀
- MDBG: 笑里藏刀
- Examples with 笑里藏刀 on Tatoeba
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