瞒天过海 (mán tiān guò hǎi) — (idiom) to deceive someone brazenly and skillfully; to get away with something through audacious trickery
Definition
A chengyu meaning to pull off a large-scale deception by bold trickery — literally 'fool the heavens to cross the sea.' Carries a sense of audacious, skillful concealment rather than a small lie.
idiom
to deceive someone brazenly and skillfullyto get away with something through audacious trickery
Examples
- 瞒天过海，。Tā yòng de mán tiān guò hǎi zhī jì, piàn guò le suǒ yǒu rén.He used the trick of ‘deceiving the heavens and crossing the sea’ to fool everyone.
- 瞒天过海。Zhè zhǒng mán tiān guò hǎi de shǒu fǎ zài shāng jiè bìng bù shǎo jiàn.This kind of audacious deception is not uncommon in the business world.
- 瞒天过海，。Tā men jìng rán zài lǎo shī yǎn pí dǐ xià mán tiān guò hǎi, tōu huàn le shì juàn.They actually pulled an ‘deceive the heavens and cross the sea’ right under the teacher’s nose and swapped the exam papers.
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