English rendering dismiss brusquely Literal translation: “as if snapping green wood”
A figurative expression for dismissing a statement or opinion without any consideration.
Dictionary example 1
사장은 새로운 사업에 대한 전무의 반대 의견을 생나무 꺾듯 하더니 결국 큰 실패를 맛보았다.
Read the meanings, trace, then cover above the masking line and write. Uncover, choose a meaning, and make your own sentence.
Writing text생나무 꺾듯
Explore the body parts or scenes linked to this idiom.
A silent film that writes the headword and its meaning.
Grow an inner stalk For a leafy vegetable’s inner stalk to grow progressively larger 
form a dense forest For many things to stand densely together. 
Show no sign at all Show no trace whatsoever 
2 meanings Nip something in the bud; notice a sign Block something new from the beginning or eliminate it entirely. 
Shared · 2 show no promise To show no possibility or hope of doing well from the outset. 
Disappear entirely For an entire kind of thing to vanish 
Shared · 3 have substance For words or actions to be coherent and substantial. 
Leave absolutely nothing Leave nothing at all. 
Shared · 2 not get through at all For a proposed method or opinion not to be accepted. 
Without leaving a trace Entirely, leaving nothing behind Browse in Hangul order.
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