插翅难飞 (插翅難飛)
chā chì nán fēi
Pinyin
Definition
插翅难飞 (插翅難飛)
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- lit. even given wings, you couldn't fly (idiom); fig. impossible to escape
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to insert
- 2 stick in
- 3 pierce
- 4 to take part in
- 5 to interfere
- 6 to interpose
- 1 music played during a movie, play etc
- 2 incidental music
- 3 music played in a theatrical interlude
- 4 (fig.) incident
- 5 episode
- 1 lit. knifes piercing both sides (idiom)
- 2 fig. to attach a great importance to friendship, up to the point of being able to sacrifice oneself for it
- 1 to spread wings
Idioms (6)
两肋插刀
- 1 lit. knifes piercing both sides (idiom)
- 2 fig. to attach a great importance to friendship, up to the point of being able to sacrifice oneself for it
展翅高飞
- 1 to spread one's wings and soar (idiom)
- 2 to develop one's abilities freely
插科打诨
- 1 to include impromptu comic material in opera performance (idiom); to jest
- 2 buffoonery
插翅难飞
- 1 lit. even given wings, you couldn't fly (idiom); fig. impossible to escape
无心插柳
- 1 (idiom) (of a good outcome) unanticipated
- 2 serendipitous
- 3 fortuitous