拖尾巴
tuō wěi ba
Pinyin
Definition
拖尾巴
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- to obstruct
- to be a drag on sb
- to delay finishing off a job
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 (coll.) large bus
- 2 coach
- 3 (abbr. for 大型巴士)
- 1 Barack Obama (1961-), US Democrat politician, president 2009-2017
- 1 tail
- 2 remainder
- 3 remnant
- 4 extremity
- 5 sixth of the 28 constellations
- 6 classifier for fish
Idioms (20)
吴头楚尾
- 1 lit. head in Wu and tail in Chu (idiom); fig. close together
- 2 head-to-tail
- 3 one thing starts where the other leaves off
哑巴吃黄莲
- 1 no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom)
- 2 also written 啞巴吃黃連|哑巴吃黄连
- 3 (often precedes 有苦說不出|有苦说不出[yǒu kǔ shuō bu chū])
哑巴吃黄连
- 1 no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom)
- 2 also written 啞巴吃黃蓮|哑巴吃黄莲
- 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
- 1 to be forced to suffer in silence (idiom)
- 2 unable to speak of one's bitter suffering
- 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
- 1 lit. would rather be a chicken's head than a phoenix's tail (idiom)
- 2 fig. to prefer to be a big fish in a small pond rather than a small fish in a big pond