大炮打蚊子
dà pào dǎ wén zi
Pinyin
Definition
大炮打蚊子
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- cannon fire to hit a mosquito
- to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 son
- 1 big
- 2 huge
- 3 large
- 4 major
- 5 great
- 6 wide
- 7 deep
- 8 older (than)
- 9 oldest
- 10 eldest
- 11 greatly
- 12 very much
- 13 (dialect) father
- 14 father's elder or younger brother
- 1 very auspicious
- 2 extremely lucky
- 1 the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四書|四书[Sì shū] in Confucianism
- 1 everyone
- 2 influential family
- 3 great expert
Idioms (20)
一炮打响
- 1 to win instant success (idiom)
- 2 to start off successfully
一炮而红
- 1 to win instant success (idiom)
- 2 to become an instant hit
一瓶子不响,半瓶子晃荡
- 1 lit. a full bottle makes no sound; a half-filled bottle sloshes (idiom)
- 2 fig. empty vessels make the most noise
一网打尽
- 1 lit. to catch everything in the one net (idiom)
- 2 fig. to scoop up the whole lot
- 3 to capture them all in one go
三天不打,上房揭瓦
- 1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
- 2 spare the rod, spoil the child