吆五喝六
yāo wǔ hè liù
Pinyin
Definition
吆五喝六
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- lit. to shout out hoping for fives and sixes when gambling with dice; a hubbub of gambling
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一五一十
- 1 lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail
三五成群
- 1 in groups of three or four (idiom)
三令五申
- 1 to order again and again (idiom)
三个和尚没水喝
- 1 lit. three monks have no water to drink (idiom)
- 2 fig. everybody's business is nobody's business
- 3 (If there is one monk, he will fetch water for himself. If there are two, they will fetch water together. But if there are three or more, none will take it upon himself to fetch water.)
三姑六婆
- 1 women with disreputable or illegal professions (idiom)