闹笑话 – vocab dash

闹笑话nàoxiàohua

Meanings

1. to make a fool of oneself

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Examples2

他们tāmen一直yīzhí闹笑话nàoxiàohua。

They were always making jokes.

幸运xìngyùn的de是shì大家dàjiā都dōu明白míngbai了le这个zhège老外lǎowài的de意思yìsi，知道zhīdào我wǒ只是zhǐshì闹笑话nàoxiàohua而ér友好yǒuhǎo地dì对duì我wǒ笑xiào一下yīxià。

Fortunately, everybody understood what this foreigner meant, knew I was only making a fool of myself, and laughed at me.