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Open the tool →另眼看戏 (lìng yǎn kàn xì) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “to view someone in a new light”.
另眼看戏 is pronounced lìng yǎn kàn xì in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 另眼看戏 means “to watch a play with different eyes”. It is used to mean “to view someone in a new light”.
犹另眼相看。指看待某个人不同一般。也指不被重视的人得到重视。