1 to spit

2 to put

3 to say

1 (slang) to roast

2 to ridicule

3 also pr. [tǔ cáo]

1 pregnant

2 to have conceived

3 gestation

4 pregnancy

1 infertility

1 sliced bread (loanword from "toast")

1 to have to pour out what's on one's mind (idiom)

1 to pour out one's heart (idiom)

1 lit. a mouth spitting with poisonous flames

2 to speak angrily to sb (idiom)

1 lit. to breathe out stale air and breathe in fresh (idiom, from Zhuangzi 庄子); fig. to get rid of the old and bring in the new

1 to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising

2 hoist with his own petard