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one 's eyes burn and one 's ears glow

Time: 2022-01-31 07:45:46 Author: ChinaWiki.net

one 's eyes burn and one 's ears glow

Hot eyes and hot ears, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin y ǎ nx í ng ě RR è, refers to the feeling of drinking slightly drunk. From the 21st chapter of a dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in Qing Dynasty

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Refers to the eyes half open and half closed, hazy and see, hot and dry ears. Describes the feeling of being slightly drunk.

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Chapter 21 of Cao Xueqin's a dream of Red Mansions in Qing Dynasty: "after dinner, Baoyu has two glasses of wine, and her eyes and ears are hot. In the past, people would like to laugh and have fun, but today, a lonely person is not interested in the lamp."

one 's eyes burn and one 's ears glow


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