借酒浇愁 (借酒澆愁)
jiè jiǔ jiāo chóu
Pinyin
Definition
借酒浇愁 (借酒澆愁)
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- to drown one's sorrows (in alcohol)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to be appropriate to have with alcohol
- 2 to down one's drink
- 1 to lend
- 2 to borrow
- 3 by means of
- 4 to take (an opportunity)
- 1 wine shop
- 2 pub (public house)
- 3 hotel
- 4 restaurant
- 5 (Tw) hostess club
Idioms (20)
今朝有酒今朝醉
- 1 to live in the moment (idiom)
- 2 to live every day as if it were one's last
- 3 to enjoy while one can
以免借口
- 1 to remove sth that could be used as a pretext (idiom)
借刀杀人
- 1 to lend sb a knife to kill sb
- 2 to get sb else to do one's dirty work
- 3 to attack using the strength of another (idiom)
借古讽今
- 1 to use the past to disparage the present (idiom)
借尸还魂
- 1 lit. reincarnated in sb else's body (idiom); fig. a discarded or discredited idea returns in another guise