切要
qiè yào
Pinyin
Definition
切要
-
- essential
- extremely important
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一刀切
- 1 lit. to cut all at one stroke (idiom); to impose uniformity
- 2 one solution fits a diversity of problems
- 3 one size fits all
一切就绪
- 1 everything in its place and ready (idiom)
不要在一棵树上吊死
- 1 don't insist on only taking one road to Rome (idiom)
- 2 there's more than one way to skin a cat
刀不磨要生锈,人不学要落后
- 1 a blade will get rusty if it is not sharpened; a man will fall behind if he doesn't study (idiom)
切中时弊
- 1 to hit home on the evils of the day (idiom); fig. to hit a current political target
- 2 to hit the nub of the matter