敷衍了事
fūyán-liǎoshì
to do something perfunctorily
Every meaning
fūyǎn-liǎoshì
- to do something perfunctorily
Its characters
- 敷fūto apply (ointment, a mask); to spread on
- 衍yǎnto spread out; to develop (as in 衍生)
- 了liǎoto finish; to settle (as in 了结)
- 事shìthing; matter; affair
Words with 敷
Words with 衍
Meanings from our own dictionary. Chengyu from the Xinhua idiom list, the most common first.