出人意外
chū rén yì wài
Pinyin
Definition
出人意外
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- turned out other than expected (idiom); unexpected
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 life (one's time on earth)
- 1 to go out
- 2 to come out
- 3 to occur
- 4 to produce
- 5 to go beyond
- 6 to rise
- 7 to put forth
- 8 to happen
- 9 (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result)
- 10 classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
- 1 to come out
- 2 to appear
- 3 to arise
- 1 to go out
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
一意孤行
- 1 obstinately clinging to one's course (idiom)
- 2 willful
- 3 one's own way
- 4 dogmatic
一言既出,驷马难追
- 1 lit. once said, a team of horses cannot unsay it (idiom); a promise must be kept
一鸣惊人
- 1 to amaze the world with a single brilliant feat (idiom); an overnight celebrity
一鼻孔出气
- 1 lit. to breathe through the same nostril (idiom); fig. two people say exactly the same thing (usually derog.)
- 2 to sing from the same hymn sheet