shí
rén
huì

idiom
common

Meaning of 拾人牙慧

拾人牙慧 means to pick up scraps of others' words and pass them off as one's own; to plagiarize; to borrow unoriginally. Pronounced shí rén yá huì.

  • to pick up scraps of others' words and pass them off as one's own; to plagiarize; to borrow unoriginally

Definitions & Examples

Xiě
wén
zhāng
yào
yǒu
de
jiàn
jiě
 
néng
shí
rén
huì
 

When writing essays, you must have your own insights and cannot simply plagiarize others' ideas.

de
yǎn
jiǎng
wán
quán
shì
shí
rén
huì
 
méi
yǒu
rèn
xīn
 

His speech was entirely unoriginal, offering nothing new.

Zuò
xué
wèn
zuì
huì
de
jiù
shì
shí
rén
huì
 
rén
yún
yún
 

The biggest taboo in academic research is borrowing others' ideas unoriginally and parroting what others say.