倒海翻江
dǎo hǎi fān jiāng
Pinyin
Definition
倒海翻江
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- see 翻江倒海[fān jiāng dǎo hǎi]
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 Shanghai municipality, central east China, abbr. to 滬|沪[Hù]
- 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 have bad luck
- 2 to be out of luck
- 1 sea
- 2 ocean
- 1 Jiangshan county level city in Quzhou 衢州[Qú zhōu], Zhejiang
Idioms (20)
人不可貌相,海水不可斗量
- 1 you can't judge a person by appearance, just as you can't measure the sea with a pint pot (idiom)
人仰马翻
- 1 to suffer a crushing defeat (idiom)
- 2 in a pitiful state
- 3 in a complete mess
- 4 to roll (with laughter)
人在江湖,身不由己
- 1 you can't always do as you like
- 2 one has to compromise in this world (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)
倒悬之危
- 1 lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
- 2 dire straits