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出洋相

chū yángxiàng

“To make a fool of oneself” in Chinese is 出洋相 (chū yángxiàng).

Meaning

  • to make a fool of oneself

Example

你要是再给我们公司出洋相,我可就不客气了。

If you make fun of our company again, we certainly won’t be polite to you.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

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