土木形骸
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Pinyin
Definition
土木形骸
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- earth and wood framework (idiom); plain and undecorated body
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一木难支
- 1 lit. a single post cannot prop up a falling house (idiom)
- 2 fig. one is helpless alone
人生一世,草木一春
- 1 Man has but one life, grass but one spring (idiom). fig. the brevity of human existence
你走你的阳关道,我过我的独木桥
- 1 lit. you hit the high road, I'll cross the log bridge (idiom)
- 2 fig. you go your way, I'll go mine
- 3 you do it your way, I'll do it mine
入土为安
- 1 buried and at rest (idiom); Resquiescat in pacem (RIP)
兵来将挡,水来土掩
- 1 counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action
- 2 to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation