瞒天过海比喻采取欺骗手段暗中进行活动。英cross the sea under camouflage; deceive as one who cheats boldly and cleverly; very clear and daring in deceiving others;[查看详情]

好高骛远骛：通“务”，追求。喜欢追求高远的目标。形容人不切实际而自命不凡。例不可徒托空言并且不可好高骛远。——清吴趼人《痛史》英aim too high; bite off more than one can chew;[查看详情]

添枝加叶比喻叙述事情或转述别人的话时不恰当地夸张或增添原来没有的内容使之走样。英deliberately embelish the facts; add amusing but perhaps untrue details;[查看详情]

过甚其词见“过甚其辞”。[查看详情]

是非颠倒硬把对的说成错的，把错的说成对的。[查看详情]

招摇撞骗假借他人声势从事诱骗钱财等活动。英swindle and bluff;[查看详情]

眼高手低心目中的标准很高而实际的能力很低无法实现。英be fastidious but incomperent; have great ambition but little talent; have grandiose aims but puny abilities;[查看详情]

望梅止渴比喻虚望而不能实得。例官人今日眼见一文也无提甚三五两银子正是教俺“望梅止渴，画饼充饥。”——《水浒传》英quench one’s thirst by thinking of plums; barmacides feast;[查看详情]

添油加醋比喻在叙述事情或转述别人的话时任意增添细节、夸大或歪曲事实真相。英add color and emphasis to; play up;[查看详情]

颠倒黑白把黑的说成白的，把白的说成黑的。比喻故意违背事实颠倒是非。例公事大小一概不问任着幕宾胥吏颠倒黑白。——清彭养鸥《墨籍冤魂》英call black white and white black; reversal of black and white confound black and white; stand facts on their heads;[查看详情]

等因奉此旧时上行公文的套语。在引述来文之后用此四字接着再陈说己意。今常用来比喻文牍主义、例行公事、官样文章或一成不变的固定格式。[查看详情]

颠倒是非把是说成非，把非说成是。例古圣人言其旨微密，笺注纷罗颠倒是非。——唐韩愈《施先生墓铭》英turn things upside down; confuse (reverse) right and wrong; turn right into wrong; distord facts;[查看详情]

先入为主以为先接受的思想或形成的印象是正确的不容易再听取不同的意见。即怀有成见。例蚩氓庶不至傲虐淫荡者皆以自孩提至稍长，见长幼尊卑之节有一定不易之理先入为主，故后起之私心终有所顾忌而不敢逞。——清阮葵生《茶余客话》英first impressions are strongest;[查看详情]

哗众取宠故意卖弄新奇的言论以取悦大众。例我厌恶哗众取宠的政客手腕。英try to please the public with claptrap;[查看详情]

华而不实只开花不结果。比喻外表好看内容空虚。[查看详情]

自吹自擂自己吹号与擂鼓。比喻自我标榜、夸耀。例他到处自吹自擂他自己是仁慈的。英blow one’s own trumpet; crack oneself up; advertise oneself;[查看详情]

大吹大擂吹喇叭擂鼓各种乐器齐奏。例大百货店在大吹大擂中开张了。英ballyhoo;以浮夸言词大肆宣扬。例遗老有钱或者也不过聊以自娱罢了而商人便大吹大擂的借此获利。——鲁迅《所谓“国学”》英make a great fanfare; to brag and blare;[查看详情]

两面三刀比喻背地里诋毁别人挑拨是非。例你这两面三刀的东西我不希罕。——《红楼梦》英double-dealing; fire in one hand and water in the other; double-faced tactics;[查看详情]

自欺欺人用自己都无法置信的话和手法来欺骗别人既欺人，又自欺。英deceive oneself as well as others; fool others as well as oneself;[查看详情]

故弄玄虚故意施弄狡猾的手段使人莫测高深。例这篇文章写得真切、质朴、自然没有故弄玄虚的惊人之笔。英be deliberately mystifying; make simple thing complicated; turn simple matters into mysteries;[查看详情]