14 classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process
1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一意孤行
yī yì gū xíng
1 obstinately clinging to one's course (idiom)
2 willful
3 one's own way
4 dogmatic
一目十行
yī mù shí háng
1 ten lines at a glance (idiom)
2 to read very rapidly
一言一行
yī yán yī xíng
1 every word and action (idiom)
一语道破
yī yǔ dào pò
1 one word says it all (idiom)
2 to hit the nail on the head
3 to be pithy and correct
三人行，必有我师
sān rén xíng , bì yǒu wǒ shī
1 lit. if three walk together, one can be my teacher (idiom, from the Analects of Confucius)
2 you have sth to learn from everyone
三句话不离本行
sān jù huà bù lí běn háng
1 to talk shop all the time (idiom)
三思而后行
sān sī ér hòu xíng
1 think again and again before acting (idiom); consider carefully in advance
三思而行
sān sī ér xíng
1 think three times then go (idiom); don't act before you've thought it through carefully
三百六十行
sān bǎi liù shí háng
1 all walks of life (idiom)
2 every trade
上行下效
shàng xíng xià xiào
1 subordinates follow the example of their superiors (idiom)
不足为外人道
bù zú wéi wài rén dào
1 no use to tell others
2 let's keep this between ourselves (idiom)
事怕行家
shì pà háng jiā
1 an expert always produces the best work (idiom)
仁义道德
rén yì dào dé
1 compassion, duty, propriety and integrity (idiom); all the traditional virtues
2 mainly used sarcastically, to mean hypocritical
令行禁止
lìng xíng jìn zhǐ
1 lit. if he orders you go, he forbids you stop (idiom); fig. to demand exact compliance with instructions
2 to ensure strictly obedience
以其人之道，还治其人之身
yǐ qí rén zhī dào , huán zhì qí rén zhī shēn
1 to use an opponent's own methods to obtain retribution (idiom, from Song dynasty neo-Confucianist Zhu Xi 朱熹); to get revenge by playing sb back at his own game
2 to give sb a taste of his own medicine
你走你的阳关道，我过我的独木桥
nǐ zǒu nǐ de Yáng guān Dào , wǒ guò wǒ de dú mù qiáo
1 lit. you hit the high road, I'll cross the log bridge (idiom)
2 fig. you go your way, I'll go mine
3 you do it your way, I'll do it mine
倒行逆施
dào xíng nì shī
1 to go against the tide (idiom); to do things all wrong
2 to try to turn back history
3 a perverse way of doing things
假道伐虢
jiǎ dào fá Guó
1 to obtain safe passage to conquer the State of Guo
2 to borrow the resources of an ally to attack a common enemy (idiom)
传道受业
chuán dào shòu yè
1 to teach (idiom); lit. to give moral and practical instruction