supercilious

supercilious

It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is p á ngru ò w ú R é n, which means that there is no one nearby. It describes a person's arrogant attitude. It comes from yanduzhuan, the book of the later Han Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Yanduzhuan in the book of the later Han Dynasty: Although he was gradually away from the building, Gao Feng didn't know the rainstorm when he was reading.

Idiom usage

As a predicate, attribute, adverbial; refers to people's attitude. Example: in the biography of Xie shangzhuan in the book of Jin, it is said that "the person who guides and makes the seat caress his hands and strike a knot is still pitching in the middle, as if there is no one nearby, so is his rate." Yan Yan's biography of the Song Dynasty: living in the Qing Dynasty, not in the business of wealth, food and clothing, drinking alone in the countryside, when it is appropriate, near as if no one. Chapter 75 of Shi Naian's outlaws of the marsh in Ming Dynasty: when Chen Taiwei first got off the ship, he sat in the middle as if there were no one.