打小报告 (打小報告)
dǎ xiǎo bào gào
Pinyin

Definition

打小报告 (打小報告)
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dǎ xiǎo bào gào
  1. (coll.) to tattletale
  2. to rat on sb

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

告诉
gào sù
  1. 1 to press charges
  2. 2 to file a complaint
小
xiǎo
  1. 1 small
  2. 2 tiny
  3. 3 few
  4. 4 young
小小
xiǎo xiǎo
  1. 1 very small
  2. 2 very few
  3. 3 very minor
小时
xiǎo shí
  1. 1 hour
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
打
dá
  1. 1 dozen (loanword)

Idioms (20)

一炮打响
yī pào dǎ xiǎng
  1. 1 to win instant success (idiom)
  2. 2 to start off successfully
一网打尽
yī wǎng dǎ jìn
  1. 1 lit. to catch everything in the one net (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to scoop up the whole lot
  3. 3 to capture them all in one go
三天不打，上房揭瓦
sān tiān bù dǎ , shàng fáng jiē wǎ
  1. 1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
  2. 2 spare the rod, spoil the child
上有老下有小
shàng yǒu lǎo xià yǒu xiǎo
  1. 1 lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children
  3. 3 sandwich generation
不打不成器
bù dǎ bù chéng qì
  1. 1 spare the rod and spoil the child (idiom)

Sample Sentences

你竟敢打小报告！要是主管发现了，之后给你放冷箭怎么办？
nǐ jìnggǎn dǎxiǎobàogào ！yàoshi zhǔguǎn fāxiàn le ，zhīhòu gěi nǐ fànglěngjiàn zěnmebàn ？
How could you snitch on the manager! What happens if he finds out and then stabs your back afterwards?
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我怕你吗？要我继续？好啊，上次我明明就没怎样，你竟然跑去跟老板打小报告，说什么我不做事？你哪只眼睛看到我不做事？
wǒ pà nǐ ma ？yào wǒ jìxù ？hǎo a ，shàngcì wǒ míngmíng jiù méi zěnyàng ，nǐ jìngrán pǎo qù gēn lǎobǎn dǎxiǎobàogào ，shuō shénme wǒ bù zuòshì ？nǐ nǎ zhī yǎnjing kàndào wǒ bù zuòshì ？
You think I'm scared of you? You want me to continue? OK! Last time I wasn't even doing anything wrong and you went and snitched to the boss, saying that I wasn't doing my work. When did you see me not doing my work?
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你乱打小报告才是小人！
nǐ luàn dǎxiǎobàogào cáishì xiǎorén ！
You're the piece of garbage who keeps snitching on people!
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两面派。听说他还经常打小报告呢。连公司里谁谈恋爱他都要向老板汇报。真是小人。
liǎngmiànpài 。tīngshuō tā hái jīngcháng dǎxiǎobàogào ne 。lián gōngsī lǐ shéi tán liàn ài tā dōu yào xiàng lǎobǎn huìbào 。zhēnshì xiǎorén 。
Two-faced. I've heard that he also often rats on his colleagues. He even goes and reports to the boss about who in the company is dating. He's really a scoundrel.
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