头破血流 (頭破血流)
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Pinyin
Definition
头破血流 (頭破血流)
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- lit. head broken and blood flowing
- fig. badly bruised
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to exchange
- 2 exchange
- 3 communication
- 4 interaction
- 5 to have social contact (with sb)
- 1 to flow
- 2 to disseminate
- 3 to circulate or spread
- 4 to move or drift
- 5 to degenerate
- 6 to banish or send into exile
- 7 stream of water or sth resembling one
- 8 class, rate or grade
- 1 rogue
- 2 hoodlum
- 3 gangster
- 4 immoral behavior
- 1 to drift about
- 2 to wander
- 3 to roam
- 4 nomadic
- 5 homeless
- 6 unsettled (e.g. population)
- 7 vagrant
- 1 to shed tears
Idioms (20)
一语道破
- 1 one word says it all (idiom)
- 2 to hit the nail on the head
- 3 to be pithy and correct
一针见血
- 1 lit. to draw blood on the first prick (idiom)
- 2 fig. to hit the nail on the head
不是鱼死就是网破
- 1 lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom)
- 2 fig. it's a life-and-death struggle
- 3 it's either him or me
乘风破浪
- 1 to brave the wind and the billows (idiom); to have high ambitions
人往高处走,水往低处流
- 1 man seeks his way up just as water seeks its way down (idiom)
- 2 one should constantly strive to make progress