师出有名 (師出有名)
shī chū yǒu míng
Pinyin
Definition
师出有名 (師出有名)
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- lit. to have sufficient reason to send troops (idiom)
- to do something with good reason
- to have just cause
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to go out
- 2 to come out
- 3 to occur
- 4 to produce
- 5 to go beyond
- 6 to rise
- 7 to put forth
- 8 to happen
- 9 (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result)
- 10 classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
- 1 to come out
- 2 to appear
- 3 to arise
- 1 name
- 2 noun (part of speech)
- 3 place (e.g. among winners)
- 4 famous
- 5 classifier for people
- 1 to have
- 2 there is
- 3 there are
- 4 to exist
- 5 to be
- 1 haven't
- 2 hasn't
- 3 doesn't exist
- 4 to not have
- 5 to not be
Idioms (20)
一无所有
- 1 not having anything at all (idiom); utterly lacking
- 2 without two sticks to rub together
一言既出,驷马难追
- 1 lit. once said, a team of horses cannot unsay it (idiom); a promise must be kept
一鼻孔出气
- 1 lit. to breathe through the same nostril (idiom); fig. two people say exactly the same thing (usually derog.)
- 2 to sing from the same hymn sheet
三人行,必有我师
- 1 lit. if three walk together, one can be my teacher (idiom, from the Analects of Confucius)
- 2 you have sth to learn from everyone
三生有幸
- 1 the blessing of three lifetimes (idiom)
- 2 (courteous language) it's my good fortune...