zhāo
yáo
zhuàng
piàn

idiom

Meaning of 招摇撞骗

招摇撞骗 means to swindle by bluffing and posing as someone else; to deceive people under false pretenses. Pronounced zhāo yáo zhuàng piàn.

  • to swindle by bluffing and posing as someone else; to deceive people under false pretenses

Definitions & Examples

mào
chōng
shēng
 
dào
chù
zhāo
yáo
zhuàng
piàn
 

He posed as a doctor and swindled people everywhere.

Zhè
tuán
huǒ
zhuān
mén
zhāo
yáo
zhuàng
piàn
 
piàn
le
hěn
duō
lǎo
rén
 

This gang specialized in fraud and cheated many elderly people.

yào
bèi
xiē
zhāo
yáo
zhuàng
piàn
de
jiāng
shù
shì
gěi
piàn
le
 

Don't be fooled by those quack fortune-tellers who swindle people.