戳脊梁
chuō jǐ liang
Pinyin

Definition

戳脊梁
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chuō jǐ liang
  1. to criticize behind sb's back
  2. back-biting

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

chuō
  1. 1 to jab
  2. 2 to poke
  3. 3 to stab
  4. 4 to sprain
  5. 5 to blunt
  6. 6 to fuck (vulgar)
  7. 7 to stand sth upright
Liáng
  1. 1 Liang Dynasty (502-557)
  2. 2 Later Liang Dynasty (907-923)
  3. 3 surname Liang
Liáng Jìng rú
  1. 1 Fish Leong (1978-), Malaysian pop singer
  2. 2 also Leong Chui Peng or Jasmine Leong
qiáo liáng
  1. 1 bridge (lit. and fig.)
jǐ liáng
  1. 1 backbone
  2. 2 spine
  3. 3 Taiwan pr. [jǐ liang]

Idioms (8)

上梁不正下梁歪
shàng liáng bù zhèng xià liáng wāi
  1. 1 lit. If the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked (idiom); fig. subordinates imitate their superiors' vices
偷梁换柱
tōu liáng huàn zhù
  1. 1 lit. to steal a rafter and replace it with a column
  2. 2 to replace the original with a fake
  3. 3 to perpetrate a fraud (idiom)
悬梁刺股
xuán liáng cì gǔ
  1. 1 to study assiduously and tirelessly (idiom)
  2. 2 頭懸梁,錐刺股|头悬梁,锥刺股[tóu xuán liáng
  3. 3 zhuī cì gǔ]
绕梁三日
rào liáng sān rì
  1. 1 reverberates around the rafters for three days (idiom); fig. sonorous and resounding (esp. of singing voice)
蹿房越脊
cuān fáng yuè jǐ
  1. 1 lit. to leap the house and cross the roofridge (idiom); dashing over rooftops (of robbers and pursuing knight-errant 俠客|侠客 in fiction)