1 flavor

2 smell

3 hint of

1 to know

2 to become aware of

3 also pr. [zhī dao]

1 the ways of the world

2 the morals of the time

1 justice

2 fairness

3 public highway

1 to make one's first public performance (of an entertainer etc)

2 to start one's career

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

1 one word says it all (idiom)

2 to hit the nail on the head

3 to be pithy and correct

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

2 fig. at a total loss

1 lit. three monks have no water to drink (idiom)

2 fig. everybody's business is nobody's business

3 (If there is one monk, he will fetch water for himself. If there are two, they will fetch water together. But if there are three or more, none will take it upon himself to fetch water.)

1 no use to tell others

2 let's keep this between ourselves (idiom)