招风惹草 (招風惹草)
zhāo fēng rě cǎo
Pinyin
Definition
招风惹草 (招風惹草)
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- to stir up trouble (idiom)
- to sow discord
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to provoke
- 2 to irritate
- 3 to vex
- 4 to stir up
- 5 to anger
- 6 to attract (troubles)
- 7 to cause (problems)
- 1 to recruit
- 2 to provoke
- 3 to beckon
- 4 to incur
- 5 to infect
- 6 contagious
- 7 a move (chess)
- 8 a maneuver
- 9 device
- 10 trick
- 11 to confess
- 1 to call out to
- 2 to greet
- 3 to say hello to
- 4 to inform
- 5 to take care of
- 6 to take care that one does not
- 1 to invite applications for a job
- 2 to recruit
- 1 lit. inviting wealth
- 2 We wish you success and riches (cf idiom 招財進寶|招财进宝[zhāo cái jìn bǎo])
Idioms (20)
人生一世,草木一春
- 1 Man has but one life, grass but one spring (idiom). fig. the brevity of human existence
兔子不吃窝边草
- 1 A rabbit doesn't eat the grass by its own burrow (idiom); One shouldn't do anything to harm one's neighbors.
兵马未动,粮草先行
- 1 before the troops move, fodder and provisions go first (idiom); logistics comes before military maneuvers
- 2 an army marches on its stomach
剪草除根
- 1 lit. cut grass and pull out roots (idiom); fig. to destroy root and branch
- 2 to eradicate
又要马儿跑,又要马儿不吃草
- 1 lit. you can't expect the horse to run fast but not let it graze (idiom)
- 2 fig. you can't have your cake and eat it, too