叶公好龙

lit. Lord Ye's passion for dragons (idiom) / fig. to pretend to be fond of sth while actually fearing it / ostensible fondness of sth one really fears

Characters and words in 叶公好龙

to be in harmony
leaf / page / lobe / (historical) period / classifier for small boats / a surname

= + : Maud Younger (y) practised a trick shot all day in the elevator's bathroom (e4). She's now able to throw a leaf (叶) high in the air, then quickly throw a mandarin (口) and beat the mandarin with a cross (十) like a baseball with a bat so that the mandarin rips a hole right into the leaf.

= + : You could see the cross 十 as the leaves 叶 of the mandarin 口.
public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4] / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal)

= + : Mnemonic symbol from 公交车: a (magic) bus.

= + : Gitta Giraffe has to deliver 100 eight balls to engine driving a magic bus. She is driving in front of the engine and because the load is so heavy, she is driving very slowly. Additionally, she tried to decrease the wind resistance by installing a large fake nose at the front of the bus.
good / well / proper / good to / easy to / very / so / (suffix indicating completion or readiness) / (of two people) close / on intimate terms / (after a personal pronoun) hello

= + : Hamlet visits the wishing well in the aorta and wishes for a good child. A picosecond later, an egg appears, cracks open and Bessie Coleman jumps out.
to be fond of / to have a tendency to / to be prone to
good / appropriate; proper / all right! / (before a verb) easy to / (before a verb) good to / (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so / (verb complement indicating completion) / (of two people) close; on intimate terms / (after a personal pronoun) hello
to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to
surname Long

= 𠂇 + + : Lenny Lemur and a dragon are cutting little paper dragons out of petal leafs using scissors just inside the engine's kitchen. Until they are ready to cut the next petal leaf they keep the leaves in a ladle.
dragon / CL:條|条[tiao2] / imperial

= 𠂇 + + : Lenny Lemur and a dragon are cutting little paper dragons out of petal leafs using scissors just inside the engine's kitchen. Until they are ready to cut the next petal leaf they keep the leaves in a ladle.

Words with 叶公好龙

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Sentences with 叶公好龙

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