Taivo A Taiwan Mandarin dictionary

洋相

yángxiàng

ㄧㄤˊ ㄒㄧㄤˋ

  1. 1social gaffe or blunder
  2. 2faux pas
  3. 3see 出洋相[chu1 yang2 xiang4]
Example

你要是再給我們公司出洋相,我可就不客氣了。

nǐ yàoshi zài gěi wǒmen gōngsī chūyángxiàng wǒ kějiù búkèqi le

If you make fun of our company again, we certainly won’t be polite to you.

Keep 洋相 and it comes back until you know it.

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