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怕老婆

pà lǎo pó

3-character word

What 怕老婆 means

1. henpecked
2. to be under one's wife's thumb

The characters in 怕老婆

• 怕pàto be afraid; to fear; to dread
• 老lǎoprefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of…
• 婆pó(bound form) grandmother; (bound form) matron; (bound form) mother-in-law

Example sentences

• 一个除了呼吸之外做任何事之前都要经过老婆同意的男人是一个怕老婆的男人。
  Yī gè chúle hūxī zhīwài zuò rènhé shì zhīqián dōu yào jīngguò lǎopó tóngyì de nánrén shì yī gè pàlǎopó de nánrén.
  A man who asks his wife's permission before taking any action except breathing is a henpecked husband.