拍烏蠅

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(adj.) to describe a place where the business is very quiet · slow, with hardly any customers; literally 'squatting flies to kill time'.

2 Written Forms

Meanings

  1. (adj.) to describe a place where the business is very quiet
  2. slow, with hardly any customers; literally 'squatting flies to kill time'.

Written Forms

拍烏蠅Traditional · Main Form
拍乌蝇Alternate Form

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