平安道
Píng ān dào
Pinyin
Definition
平安道
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- P'yong'ando Province of Joseon Korea, now divided into South Pyong'an Province 平安南道[Píng ān nán dào] and North Pyong'an Province 平安北道[Píng ān běi dào] of North Korea
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一人得道,鸡犬升天
- 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
- 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
- 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
- 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一波未平,一波又起
- 1 before the first wave subsides, a new wave rises (idiom); a new problem arises before the old is solved
- 2 many twists and turns to a story
- 3 one thing after another
一碗水端平
- 1 lit. to hold a bowl of water level (idiom)
- 2 fig. to be impartial
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
一马平川
- 1 flat land one could gallop straight across (idiom); wide expanse of flat country