Dictionary › 讨好卖乖

讨好卖乖

tǎo hǎo mài guāi

4-character word Traditional 討好賣乖

What 讨好卖乖 means

1. to curry favor by showing obeisance (idiom)

The characters in 讨好卖乖

• 讨tǎoto invite; to provoke; to demand or ask for
• 好hǎogood; appropriate; proper; all right!
• 卖màito sell; to betray; to spare no effort
• 乖guāi(of a child) obedient, well-behaved; clever; shrewd

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tǎo hǎo mài guāi correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.