泼出去的水 (潑出去的水)
pō chū qù de shuǐ
Pinyin
Definition
泼出去的水 (潑出去的水)
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- spilt water
- (fig.) sth that can not be retrieved
- spilt milk
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to go
- 2 to go to (a place)
- 3 (of a time etc) last
- 4 just passed
- 5 to send
- 6 to remove
- 7 to get rid of
- 8 to reduce
- 9 to be apart from in space or time
- 10 to die (euphemism)
- 11 to play (a part)
- 12 (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth
- 13 (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker)
- 14 (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
- 1 of
- 2 ~'s (possessive particle)
- 3 (used after an attribute)
- 4 (used to form a nominal expression)
- 5 (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
- 1 to go up
- 1 to go down
- 2 to descend
- 3 to go on
- 4 to continue
- 5 (of a servant) to withdraw
- 1 to pay
- 2 to invest (energy or time in a friendship etc)
Idioms (20)
一条绳上的蚂蚱
- 1 lit. grasshoppers tied together with a piece of string (idiom)
- 2 fig. people who are in it together for better or worse
- 3 people who will sink or swim together
一清如水
- 1 lit. as clear as water (idiom)
- 2 fig. (of officials etc) honest and incorruptible
一矢中的
- 1 to hit the target with a single shot
- 2 to say something spot on (idiom)
一碗水端平
- 1 lit. to hold a bowl of water level (idiom)
- 2 fig. to be impartial
一言既出,驷马难追
- 1 lit. once said, a team of horses cannot unsay it (idiom); a promise must be kept