鬧笑話 [闹－话]

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Definitions (Wiktionary)
  1. verb, verb-object
    to make a fool of oneself; to make a spectacle of oneself
    (syn.) 现眼, 現眼, 脱棰, 出彩, 咬破粿, 脫箠, 出洋相, 出醜, 凸槌, 出丑

鬧笑話 [闹－话]

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Pinyin nào xiào hua

Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
  1. to make a fool of oneself
Examples (Tatoeba—Mandarin-English)
  1. Mandarin
    幸运的是大家都明白了这个老外的意思，知道我只是闹笑话而友好地对我笑一下。
    幸運的是大家都明白了這個老外的意思，知道我只是鬧笑話而友好地對我笑一下。
    xìng yùn de shì dà jiā dōu míng bái le zhè ge lǎo wài de yì si ， zhī dào wǒ zhǐ shì nào xiào hua ér yǒu hǎo dì duì wǒ xiào yī xià 。
    • Fortunately, everybody understood what this foreigner meant, knew I was only making a fool of myself, and laughed at me.
  2. Mandarin
    他们一直闹笑话。
    他們一直鬧笑話。
    tā men yī zhí nào xiào hua 。
    • They were always making jokes.