吃枪药 (吃槍藥)
chī qiāng yào
Pinyin
Definition
吃枪药 (吃槍藥)
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- (lit.) to have swallowed gunpowder
- (fig.) to be ablaze with anger
- ornery
- snappy
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to eat
- 2 to consume
- 3 to eat at (a cafeteria etc)
- 4 to eradicate
- 5 to destroy
- 6 to absorb
- 7 to suffer
- 8 to stammer (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [jí])
- 1 (onom.) sound of muffled laughter (chuckling, tittering etc)
- 2 sound of stammering
- 1 to finish eating
- 1 to eat up
- 2 to consume
- 1 to take medicine
Idioms (20)
不听老人言,吃亏在眼前
- 1 (idiom) ignore your elders at your peril
兔子不吃窝边草
- 1 A rabbit doesn't eat the grass by its own burrow (idiom); One shouldn't do anything to harm one's neighbors.
又要马儿跑,又要马儿不吃草
- 1 lit. you can't expect the horse to run fast but not let it graze (idiom)
- 2 fig. you can't have your cake and eat it, too
吃一堑,长一智
- 1 Fall into the moat and you'll be wiser next time (idiom); One only learns from one's mistakes.
吃不了兜着走
- 1 lit. if you can't eat it all, you'll have to take it home (idiom)
- 2 fig. you'll have to take the consequences