粵

打daa2臉lim5

simp打脸
daa2 lim5dǎ liǎn

English

  1. to paint one's face with stage makeup
  2. (neologism, attested by 2014) to expose sb as wrong; to put egg on sb's face
  3. to have eggs on one's face

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 被當場踢爆自己做錯嘅嘢,或者冇做到自己講過嘅嘢,所以覺得丟架、落唔到台

Examples

  • 希望你之後唔好被人瘋狂打臉。

    I hope you won't end up with eggs on your face.

Sources: cc-cedict, words.hk

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