沙漏
shā lòu
Pinyin
Definition
沙漏
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- hourglass
- sand filter
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一盘散沙
- 1 lit. like a sheet of loose sand
- 2 fig. unable to cooperate (idiom)
含沙射影
- 1 to attack someone by innuendo (idiom)
- 2 to make oblique charges
- 3 to make insinuations
- 4 to insinuate
天机不可泄漏
- 1 lit. mysteries of heaven must not be revealed (idiom); must not be revealed
- 2 I am not at liberty to inform you.
天网恢恢,疏而不漏
- 1 lit. heaven's net has wide meshes, but nothing escapes it (idiom, from Laozi 73)
- 2 fig. the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape
- 3 you can't run from the long arm of the law
封沙育林
- 1 to plant trees in order to stabilize sand (idiom)