拍拍屁股走人
pāi pāi pì gu zǒu rén
Pinyin
Definition
拍拍屁股走人
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- to make oneself scarce
- to slip away
- to take French leave
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一人得道,鸡犬升天
- 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
一拍两散
- 1 (of marriage or business partners) to break up (idiom)
- 2 to separate
一拍即合
- 1 lit. to be together from the first beat (idiom)
- 2 to hit it off
- 3 to click together
- 4 to chime in easily
一条路走到黑
- 1 lit. to follow one road until dark (idiom)
- 2 fig. to stick to one's ways
- 3 to cling to one's course
一鸣惊人
- 1 to amaze the world with a single brilliant feat (idiom); an overnight celebrity
Sample Sentences
他们觉得宝贝女儿要嫁给一个外国人,心里已经很不踏实了。这个老外房子也不肯买,到底有没有在中国定居的打算?是不是跟我们女儿玩玩的?如果过几年你拍拍屁股走人了,怎么办?
They think that their darling girl is going to give herself to a foreigner; they are already feeling unsettled. If this laowai isn't willing to buy a house, does he really plan to settle down in China? Is he just playing around with our daughter? If you just take off after a couple of years, what then?