放牛班
fàng niú bān
Pinyin
Definition
放牛班
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- class of underachievers
- dunces' class (Tw)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to go to work
- 2 to be on duty
- 3 to start work
- 4 to go to the office
- 1 to finish work
- 2 to get off work
- 1 to put
- 2 to place
- 3 to release
- 4 to free
- 5 to let go
- 6 to let out
- 7 to set off (fireworks)
- 1 to lay down
- 2 to put down
- 3 to let go of
- 4 to relinquish
- 5 to set aside
- 6 to lower (the blinds etc)
- 1 to have a holiday or vacation
Idioms (20)
九牛一毛
- 1 lit. one hair from nine oxen (idiom)
- 2 fig. a drop in the ocean
九牛二虎之力
- 1 tremendous strength (idiom)
初生牛犊不怕虎
- 1 lit. newborn calves do not fear tigers (idiom)
- 2 fig. the young are fearless
割鸡焉用牛刀
- 1 lit. why use a pole-ax to slaughter a chicken? (idiom)
- 2 fig. to waste effort on a trifling matter
- 3 also written 殺雞焉用牛刀|杀鸡焉用牛刀[shā jī yān yòng niú dāo]
呼牛作马
- 1 to call sth a cow or a horse (idiom); it doesn't matter what you call it
- 2 Insult me if you want, I don't care what you call me.