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看风头

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Collocation

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看风头办事
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存着看风头的心
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看风头的人
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善于看风头
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懂得看风头
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处处看风头

Definition

看风头

Literally means:

watch how the wind blows

Actually means:

see how things stand

风头, the situation or circumstances.

This phrase means watching the development or trend of the situation before an action is taken.

风头,形势、情况。

看风头,比喻观望事态发展的动向或趋势。意味着先看情况的发展变化再采取行动。

Example

Used as predicate, object or attributive. It can be used with other words in between. (作谓语、宾语、定语,中间可以插入别的词语)
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Mǎi
zhè
zhǒng
piào
股票
yǒu
méiyǒu
没有
fēngxiǎn
风险
xiànzài
现在
hěnnánshuō
很难说
  
,
fáng
不妨
xiān
kànkan
看看
fēngtóu
风头
zài
mǎi
  

It's hard to say if there's any risk in buying these stocks, so you might as well look at the wind before you buy them.

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Zhèxiē
这些
rén
guǎn
不管
zuò
shénme
什么
shì
dōu
yào
kànfēngtóu
看风头
  
,
duì
自己
yǒu
hǎochu
好处
de
cái
zuò
  
,
méiyǒu
没有
hǎochu
好处
de
duǒ
de
yuǎnyuǎn
远远
de
  

No matter what these people do, they have to look at the wind, good for themselves to do, no good to hide far away.

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shì
kànfēngtóu
看风头
de
rén
  
,
zhèzhǒng
这种
shìqing
事情
huì
zuì
得罪
rén
  
,
zěnme
怎么
kěn
zuò
ne
  
?

He is a man of the wind, this kind of thing will offend people, how can he do it?

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