倒把
dǎo bǎ
Pinyin
Definition
倒把
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- to play the market
- to speculate (on financial markets)
- to profiteer
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to fall
- 2 to collapse
- 3 to lie horizontally
- 4 to overthrow
- 5 to fail
- 6 to go bankrupt
- 7 to change (trains or buses)
- 8 to move around
- 9 to resell at a profit
- 1 to hold
- 2 to contain
- 3 to grasp
- 4 to take hold of
- 5 handle
- 6 particle marking the following noun as a direct object
- 7 classifier for objects with handle
- 8 classifier for small objects: handful
- 1 to collapse
- 2 to topple over
- 1 to count backwards (from 10 down to 0)
- 2 to count down
- 3 from the bottom (lines on a page)
- 4 from the back (rows of seats)
- 1 to flow backwards
- 2 reverse flow
Idioms (20)
一把屎一把尿
- 1 to have endured all sorts of hardships (to raise one's children) (idiom)
一把眼泪一把鼻涕
- 1 with one's face covered in tears (idiom)
一把钥匙开一把锁
- 1 One key opens one lock.
- 2 There is a different solution for each problem. (idiom)
什么风把你吹来的
- 1 What brings you here? (idiom)
倒悬之危
- 1 lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
- 2 dire straits