{"path":"/entry/75676","title":"百口莫辩 / 百口莫辯 (bǎi kǒu mò biàn) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"百口莫辩 / 百口莫辯 (bǎi kǒu mò biàn): (of someone unfairly accused) to have all one's protestations fall on deaf ears · to be unable to convince someone of one's innocence. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":75676,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["百口莫辩"],"TRADITIONAL":["百口莫辯"]}},"phonetic":"bǎi kǒu mò biàn","phoneticKey":"bai3 kou3 mo4 bian4","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"idiom","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(of someone unfairly accused)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":" to have all one's protestations fall on deaf ears","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to be unable to convince someone of one's innocence","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["VERB"],"frequency":null,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":"bái kǒu mò biàn"},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"First attested in 1200 CE, in a letter by 劉過 (Liu Guo) to 吳平仲 (Wu Pingzhong)","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"若欲擢发而尽数其罪，亦有百口而莫辨其辜。","traditional":"若欲擢髮而盡數其罪，亦有百口而莫辨其辜。"},"phonetic":"zhuófà-nánshǔ","english":"If I were to pluck my hairs to count all my sins [here is using an allusion, see 擢髮難數／擢发难数 (zhuófà-nánshǔ)], even a hundred mouths could not exonerate me, either.","ref":"1200, 劉過,《建康獄中上吳居父，時魏杭廣夫為秋官》"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}