1 flavor

2 smell

3 hint of

1 to know

2 to become aware of

3 also pr. [zhī dao]

1 the ways of the world

2 the morals of the time

1 justice

2 fairness

3 public highway

1 to make one's first public performance (of an entertainer etc)

2 to start one's career

1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)

2 fig. to ride on sb else's success

3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too

4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it

1 one word says it all (idiom)

2 to hit the nail on the head

3 to be pithy and correct

1 misshapen

2 crooked

3 uneven (idiom)

1 lit. If the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked (idiom); fig. subordinates imitate their superiors' vices

1 no use to tell others

2 let's keep this between ourselves (idiom)