Definition
洋相 literally means 'foreign appearance' but is used to describe an embarrassing social blunder, often due to unfamiliarity with proper etiquette. It almost always appears in the verb-object collocation 出洋相 (chū yángxiàng) meaning 'to make a fool of oneself in public'.
n.
social blunderfaux pas
Examples
- 。Tā zài yànhuì shàng chū le gè dà yáng xiāng.He made a big social blunder at the banquet.
- 。Bù dǒng dāngdì xísú hěn róngyì chū yáng xiāng.Not knowing local customs makes it easy to make a social blunder.
- ，洋相。Tā jiǎng le yí gè xiàohuà, jiéguǒ chū le yáng xiāng.She told a joke, but it ended up being a faux pas.
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