汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 打马虎眼
打马虎眼 (打馬虎眼)
to play dumb / to slack off (idiom)
Deliberately pretending to be confused and deceiving
方言。装糊涂,以蒙混骗人。
dǎ/dá () mǎ yǎn
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

你可以打马虎眼,但是有的话的确值得一听。

You can wriggle around all you like, but you will have to listen.

如果我因为失去了客户而打马虎眼,我可能失去了公司。

I might have lost the company if I had made a fuss over the lost customer.

他们用“控诉和反控诉”为眼前的问题打马虎眼而不是明确告诉大家:我们整个民族正面临着一次极其重要的抉择。

And last week, it even crept into the campaign for President, with charges and counter-charges that served to obscure the issues instead of illuminating the critical choices we face as a nation.