投桃报李 (投桃報李)
tóu táo bào lǐ
Pinyin

Definition

投桃报李 (投桃報李)
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tóu táo bào lǐ
  1. toss a peach, get back a plum (idiom); to return a favor
  2. to exchange gifts
  3. Scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours.

Related Words (20)

tóu piào
  1. 1 to vote
  2. 2 vote
yì qì xiāng tóu
  1. 1 congenial
tóu
  1. 1 to cast
  2. 2 to send
  3. 3 to throw oneself (into the river etc)
  4. 4 to seek refuge
  5. 5 to place oneself into the hands of
tóu rù
  1. 1 to throw into
  2. 2 to put into
  3. 3 to throw oneself into
  4. 4 to participate in
  5. 5 to invest in
  6. 6 absorbed
  7. 7 engrossed
tóu shè
  1. 1 to throw (a projectile)
  2. 2 to cast (light)

Idioms (20)

五体投地
wǔ tǐ tóu dì
  1. 1 to prostrate oneself in admiration (idiom); to adulate sb
张三李四
Zhāng sān Lǐ sì
  1. 1 Zhang the Third and Li the Fourth (idiom)
  2. 2 Tom, Dick and Harry
张冠李戴
Zhāng guān Lǐ dài
  1. 1 lit. to put Zhang's hat on Li's head
  2. 2 to attribute sth to the wrong person (idiom)
  3. 3 to confuse one thing with another
张家长,李家短
Zhāng jiā cháng , Lǐ jiā duǎn
  1. 1 lit. the Zhangs are better off than the Lis (idiom); to gossip about the neighbors
情投意合
qíng tóu yì hé
  1. 1 to have an affinity with each other (idiom)
  2. 2 to find each other congenial