强扭的瓜不甜 (強扭的瓜不甜)
qiǎng niǔ de guā bù tián
Pinyin
Definition
强扭的瓜不甜 (強扭的瓜不甜)
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- lit. if you have to use force to break a melon off the vine, it won't taste sweet (because it's only when the melon is ripe that it can be removed with just a slight twist) (idiom)
- fig. if sth is not meant to be, it's no use trying to force it to happen
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 (negative prefix)
- 2 not
- 3 no
- 1 of
- 2 ~'s (possessive particle)
- 3 (used after an attribute)
- 4 (used to form a nominal expression)
- 5 (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
- 1 not only (this one)
- 2 not just (...) but also
- 1 not to arrive
- 2 not reaching
- 3 insufficient
- 4 less than
- 1 different
- 2 distinct
- 3 not the same
- 4 not alike
Idioms (20)
一不做,二不休
- 1 don't do it, or don't rest (idiom); either give up, or go through to the end
- 2 Since we started, we must carry it through whatever happens.
- 3 in for a penny, in for a pound
一问三不知
- 1 lit. to reply "don't know" whatever the question (idiom)
- 2 fig. absolutely no idea of what's going on
- 3 complete ignorance
一尘不染
- 1 untainted by even a speck of dust (idiom); selfless and incorruptible
- 2 spotless
一字不提
- 1 to not mention a single word (about sth) (idiom)
一山不容二虎
- 1 lit. the mountain can't have two tigers (idiom)
- 2 fig. this town ain't big enough for the two of us
- 3 (of two rivals) to be fiercely competitive