栽跟头 (栽跟頭)
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Pinyin
Definition
栽跟头 (栽跟頭)
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- to fall head over heels
- (fig.) to come a cropper
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 heel
- 2 to follow closely
- 3 to go with
- 4 (of a woman) to marry sb
- 5 with
- 6 compared with
- 7 to
- 8 towards
- 9 and (joining two nouns)
- 1 high-heeled shoes
- 1 to fall headlong
- 2 (fig.) to suffer an ignominious failure
- 1 to grow
- 2 to plant
- 3 to insert
- 4 to force on sb
- 5 to fall head first
- 1 to take a fall
Idioms (2)
前人栽树,后人乘凉
- 1 to enjoy the benefits of the hard work of one's predecessors. (idiom)
好男不跟女斗
- 1 a real man doesn't fight with womenfolk (idiom)