乌漆抹黑 (烏漆抹黑)
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Pinyin
Definition
乌漆抹黑 (烏漆抹黑)
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- see 烏漆墨黑|乌漆墨黑[wū qī mò hēi]
Character Decomposition
Idioms (15)
一条路走到黑
- 1 lit. to follow one road until dark (idiom)
- 2 fig. to stick to one's ways
- 3 to cling to one's course
天下乌鸦一般黑
- 1 all crows are black (idiom)
- 2 evil people are bad all over the world
抹不下脸
- 1 to be unable to keep a straight face (idiom)
拐弯抹角
- 1 lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom)
- 2 fig. to speak in a roundabout way
- 3 to equivocate
- 4 to beat about the bush
数黄道黑
- 1 to enumerate what is black and yellow (idiom); to criticize sb behind his back to incite quarrels
- 2 also written 數黑論黃|数黑论黄[shǔ hēi lùn huáng]