人言可畏
rén yán kě wèi
Pinyin
Definition
人言可畏
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- gossip is a fearful thing (idiom)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 life (one's time on earth)
- 1 other people
- 2 others
- 3 other person
- 1 can
- 2 may
- 3 able to
- 4 to approve
- 5 to permit
- 6 to suit
- 7 (particle used for emphasis) certainly
- 8 very
- 1 can
- 2 may
- 3 possible
- 4 able to
- 5 not bad
- 6 pretty good
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
一言一动
- 1 (one's) every word and deed (idiom)
一言一行
- 1 every word and action (idiom)
一言不发
- 1 to not say a word (idiom)
一言九鼎
- 1 one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight