枪打出头鸟 (槍打出頭鳥)
qiāng dǎ chū tóu niǎo
Pinyin

Definition

枪打出头鸟 (槍打出頭鳥)
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qiāng dǎ chū tóu niǎo
  1. the shot hits the bird that pokes its head out (idiom)
  2. nonconformity gets punished

Related Words (20)

fù chū
  1. 1 to pay
  2. 2 to invest (energy or time in a friendship etc)
shēn chū
  1. 1 to extend
chū
  1. 1 to go out
  2. 2 to come out
  3. 3 to occur
  4. 4 to produce
  5. 5 to go beyond
  6. 6 to rise
  7. 7 to put forth
  8. 8 to happen
  9. 9 (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result)
  10. 10 classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
chū lái
  1. 1 to come out
  2. 2 to appear
  3. 3 to arise
chū qù
  1. 1 to go out

Idioms (20)

一炮打响
yī pào dǎ xiǎng
  1. 1 to win instant success (idiom)
  2. 2 to start off successfully
一网打尽
yī wǎng dǎ jìn
  1. 1 lit. to catch everything in the one net (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to scoop up the whole lot
  3. 3 to capture them all in one go
一言既出,驷马难追
yī yán jì chū , sì mǎ nán zhuī
  1. 1 lit. once said, a team of horses cannot unsay it (idiom); a promise must be kept
一鼻孔出气
yī bí kǒng chū qì
  1. 1 lit. to breathe through the same nostril (idiom); fig. two people say exactly the same thing (usually derog.)
  2. 2 to sing from the same hymn sheet
三天不打,上房揭瓦
sān tiān bù dǎ , shàng fáng jiē wǎ
  1. 1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
  2. 2 spare the rod, spoil the child

Sample Sentences

枪打出头鸟,你别太出风头,低调一点比较好。
qiāngdǎchūtóuniǎo ,nǐ bié tài chūfēngtou ,dīdiào yìdiǎn bǐjiào hǎo 。
Ostentatious people tend to become easy targets. Stay low-key.
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枪打出头鸟
qiāngdǎchūtóuniǎo
Ostentatious people tend to become easy targets.
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