拍黄瓜 (拍黃瓜)
pāi huáng guā
Pinyin
Definition
拍黄瓜 (拍黃瓜)
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- smashed cucumber salad
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to pat
- 2 to clap
- 3 to slap
- 4 to swat
- 5 to take (a photo)
- 6 to shoot (a film)
- 7 racket (sports)
- 8 beat (music)
- 1 to take a picture of a person without permission or without their knowledge
- 1 idiot
- 2 fool
- 1 wax gourd (Cucurbitaceae, Benincasa hispida)
- 2 white gourd
- 3 white hairy melon
- 4 Chinese squash
- 1 pumpkin
Idioms (14)
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
强扭的瓜不甜
- 1 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)
- 2 fig. if sth is not meant to be, it's no use trying to force it to happen
拍案叫绝
- 1 lit. slap the table and shout with praise (idiom); fig. wonderful!
- 2 amazing!
- 3 great!
拍案而起
- 1 lit. to slap the table and stand up (idiom); fig. at the end of one's tether
- 2 unable to take it any more