滥竽充数

lànyúchōngshù

pass oneself off as one of the players in an ensemble—be there just to make up the number (used of incompetent people or inferior goods)

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be there just to make up the number

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be there just to make up the number

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lan4 yu2 chong1 shu4

lit. to play the yu 竽 mouth organ to make up numbers (idiom); fig. to make up the numbers with inferior products, to masquerade as having an ability, token member of a group

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滥竽充数

làn yú chōng shù

pretend to play the Yu (a wind instrument) in order to make up the number for an orchestra -- to be included in a group just to fill in a vacancy; act as a stopgap; be dragged in to swell the total; fill a post without real qualifications; hold a post without qualifications; just fill up a vacancy; make up a number without active work; pass oneself off as one of the players in an ensemble -- to be there just to make up the number (used of incompetent people or inferior goods); put in men who cannot work:

我不会唱歌， 我在这儿只是滥竽充数。 I am not good at singing. I'm here just to make up the number.

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濫竽充數|滥竽充数 [làn yú chōng shù] ► lit. to play the yu ↑竽 mouth organ to make up numbers (idiom); fig. to make up the numbers with inferior products ► to masquerade as having an ability ► token member of a group