1 flavor

2 smell

3 hint of

1 to know

2 to become aware of

3 also pr. [zhī dao]

1 don't tell me ...

2 could it be that...?

1 a hundred answers to a single call (idiom)

2 to respond en masse

1 the ways of the world

2 the morals of the time

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

1 a hundred answers to a single call (idiom)

2 to respond en masse

1 one command brings a hundred responses (idiom); having hundreds of attendants at one's beck and call

1 to die (idiom)

2 to breathe one's last

3 to give up the ghost

1 one word says it all (idiom)

2 to hit the nail on the head

3 to be pithy and correct