Pig's Nose Sticking Onion - Pretending to be an Elephant

Related Explanations:

The pig's nose is stuck with a longer onion, which makes it look like an elephant's nose, but in fact it is still a pig's nose. This hilarious saying is used to satirize those who pretend to be something they are not, meaning "pretend" and "putting on an act" in a derogatory sense.

Sentence:

Small Ming is wearing black glasses as if he is very knowledgeable, but he is really pretending to be a pig with an onion in his nose.

The janitor was pointing at the new employee's work, saying this and that, a bit of a pig's nose in an onion - pretending to be an elephant.

Expanded Information

"Pig's Nose in the Onion" belongs to the category of harmonic hysteria, which adds a harmonic element to the previous type.

Related Heteronyms:

1. Nostril filling rice soup - enough to suffer

2. Fried shrimp - red man (kernel)

3. Beating the chicken feather - bold (pretend duster)

4. Winter melon skin to make a cauldron - do not compete (steam)

5. Bean sprouts fried Shrimp (shrimp) - two not worth (straight)

Hysteria generally expresses a certain meaning by dividing a sentence into two parts, the first part is a metaphor or simile, and the second part is an explanation of the meaning. In a certain language environment, usually the first half of the sentence is uttered, and the second half of the sentence is "rested", so that the original meaning can be understood and guessed.

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