头上 (頭上)
tóu shàng
Pinyin
Definition
头上 (頭上)
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- overhead
- above
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一哭二闹三上吊
- 1 to make a terrible scene (idiom)
- 2 to throw a tantrum
一条绳上的蚂蚱
- 1 lit. grasshoppers tied together with a piece of string (idiom)
- 2 fig. people who are in it together for better or worse
- 3 people who will sink or swim together
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
上一次当,学一次乖
- 1 to take sth as a lesson for next time (idiom)
- 2 once bitten, twice shy
上下其手
- 1 to raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint
- 2 fig. conspiring to defraud
Sample Sentences
她根本在我头上点火。这么多人上班开小差,她都睁一只眼闭一只眼。我只不过迟到三分钟,就让我写检讨书。
She's basically sweeping me away. She turns a blind eye to every other employee that is absent-minded all day. I was only late for three minutes and she made me write a feedback report.
你怎么会算盘打到自己妈妈头上,这样对吗?
Daughter in law: How could you involve your mother in this kind of scheme. Do you think that that is right?