拖尾巴
tuō wěi ba
Pinyin

Definition

拖尾巴
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tuō wěi ba
  1. to obstruct
  2. to be a drag on sb
  3. to delay finishing off a job

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

xià ba
  1. 1 chin
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
zuǐ ba
  1. 1 mouth
  2. 2 classifier: 张 zhāng
  3. 3 slap in the face
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè
dà bā
  1. 1 (coll.) large bus
  2. 2 coach
  3. 3 (abbr. for 大型巴士)
Ào bā mǎ
  1. 1 Barack Obama (1961-), US Democrat politician, president 2009-2017
wěi
  1. 1 tail
  2. 2 remainder
  3. 3 remnant
  4. 4 extremity
  5. 5 sixth of the 28 constellations
  6. 6 classifier for fish

Idioms (20)

吴头楚尾
Wú tóu Chǔ wěi
  1. 1 lit. head in Wu and tail in Chu (idiom); fig. close together
  2. 2 head-to-tail
  3. 3 one thing starts where the other leaves off
哑巴吃黄莲
yǎ ba chī huáng lián
  1. 1 no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom)
  2. 2 also written 啞巴吃黃連|哑巴吃黄连
  3. 3 (often precedes 有苦說不出|有苦说不出[yǒu kǔ shuō bu chū])
哑巴吃黄连
yǎ ba chī huáng lián
  1. 1 no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom)
  2. 2 also written 啞巴吃黃蓮|哑巴吃黄莲
  3. 3 (often precedes 有苦說不出|有苦说不出[yǒu kǔ shuō bu chū])
哑巴吃黄连,有苦说不出
yǎ ba chī huáng lián , yǒu kǔ shuō bu chū
  1. 1 to be forced to suffer in silence (idiom)
  2. 2 unable to speak of one's bitter suffering
  3. 3 sometimes written 啞子吃黃連,有苦說不出|哑子吃黄连,有苦说不出
宁做鸡头,不做凤尾
nìng zuò jī tóu , bù zuò fèng wěi
  1. 1 lit. would rather be a chicken's head than a phoenix's tail (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to prefer to be a big fish in a small pond rather than a small fish in a big pond