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- (of a child) obedient, well-behaved
- clever
- shrewd
- alert
- perverse
- contrary to reason
- irregular
- abnormal
- (of a child) well-behaved
- obediently
- (term of endearment for a child) darling
- sweetie
Trad. 賣乖
- to show off one's cleverness
- (of sb who has received beneficial treatment) to profess to have been hard done by
Trad. 討好賣乖
- to curry favor by showing obeisance (idiom)
Trad. 得便宜賣乖
- to have benefited from sth but pretend otherwise
- to claim to be hard done by, even though one has benefited
Trad. 上一次當，學一次乖
- to take sth as a lesson for next time (idiom)
- once bitten, twice shy