此起彼落
cǐ qǐ bǐ luò
Pinyin
Definition
此起彼落
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- to rise and fall in succession (idiom)
- repeating continuously
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一波未平,一波又起
- 1 before the first wave subsides, a new wave rises (idiom); a new problem arises before the old is solved
- 2 many twists and turns to a story
- 3 one thing after another
一病不起
- 1 to fall gravely ill, never to recover (idiom)
一落千丈
- 1 lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom)
- 2 fig. (of business, popularity etc) to suffer a sudden, devastating decline
- 3 to take a dive
七零八落
- 1 (idiom) everything broken and in disorder
不分彼此
- 1 to make no distinction between what's one's own and what's another's (idiom)
- 2 to share everything
- 3 to be on very intimate terms