1 husband

2 classifier: 个 gè

1 wife's father (father-in-law)

2 old man

1 wife's mother

2 mother-in-law

1 wife's mother

2 mother-in-law

3 same as: 丈母

1 to measure

2 measurement

1 lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom)

2 fig. (of business, popularity etc) to suffer a sudden, devastating decline

3 to take a dive

1 lit. like a three-meter high monk, you can't rub his head (idiom)

2 fig. at a total loss

1 lit. Zhang Fei fights Yue Fei

2 fig. an impossible combination

3 an impossible turn of events (idiom)

1 no poison, no great man (idiom); A great man has to be ruthless.

1 towering buildings are built up from the ground (idiom)

2 great oaks from little acorns grow