揭穿
jiē chuān
Pinyin
Definition
揭穿
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- to expose
- to uncover
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to wear
- 2 to put on
- 3 to dress
- 4 to bore through
- 5 to pierce
- 6 to perforate
- 7 to penetrate
- 8 to pass through
- 9 to thread
- 1 to pass through
- 2 to traverse
- 3 to cross
- 1 to take the lid off
- 2 to expose
- 3 to unmask
- 1 to announce publicly
- 2 to publish
- 3 to make known
- 4 to disclose
- 1 to unmask
- 2 to uncover the secret
Idioms (20)
一眼看穿
- 1 to see through something at first glance (idiom)
三天不打,上房揭瓦
- 1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
- 2 spare the rod, spoil the child
不到火候不揭锅
- 1 don't act until the time is ripe (idiom)
光脚的不怕穿鞋的
- 1 lit. the barefooted people are not afraid of those who wear shoes (idiom)
- 2 fig. the poor, who have nothing to lose, do not fear those in power
妄生穿凿
- 1 a forced analogy (idiom); to jump to an unwarranted conclusion