assume an air of self-approbation

assume an air of self-approbation

Shaking one's head, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y á ot ó UB ǎ in ǎ o, which means shaking one's head. Describes the appearance of being proud or happy. It also describes the posture of reading and reciting. It's from "Hua Yu Hua".

The origin of Idioms

The second volume of Wang Ming Qing's "Hua Yu Hua" in Song Dynasty: "Xiang de Duanming looks like a tiger, and shaking one's head is disgusting."

Discrimination of words

Shaking one's head

Idiom usage

As a predicate, adverbial, attributive; refers to a person's manner