人是铁饭是钢 (人是鐵飯是鋼)
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Pinyin
Definition
人是铁饭是钢 (人是鐵飯是鋼)
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- one can't function properly on an empty stomach (idiom)
- an empty sack cannot stand upright
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一人得道,鸡犬升天
- 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
一是一,二是二
- 1 lit. one is one, two is two (idiom)
- 2 fig. things are (or ought to be) perfectly clear-cut
- 3 unequivocal
一身是胆
- 1 devoid of fear (idiom)
- 2 intrepid
一鸣惊人
- 1 to amaze the world with a single brilliant feat (idiom); an overnight celebrity
三人成虎
- 1 three men talking makes a tiger (idiom); repeated rumor becomes a fact