临门 (臨門)
lín mén
Pinyin
Definition
临门 (臨門)
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- to arrive home
- facing one's home
- home-coming
- (soccer) facing the goalmouth
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一门心思
- 1 to set one's heart on sth (idiom)
上天无路,入地无门
- 1 lit. there is no road to the sky, nor door into the earth (idiom)
- 2 fig. to be at the end of one's rope
- 3 to be trapped in a hopeless situation
不是一家人不进一家门
- 1 people who don't belong together, don't get to live together (idiom)
- 2 marriages are predestined
- 3 people marry because they share common traits
事到临头
- 1 when things come to a head (idiom)
侯门似海
- 1 lit. the gate of a noble house is like the sea
- 2 there is a wide gap between the nobility and the common people (idiom)