泼水难收 (潑水難收)
pō shuǐ nán shōu
Pinyin
Definition
泼水难收 (潑水難收)
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- water once spilt cannot be retrieved (idiom); irreversible change
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to receive
- 2 to accept
- 3 to collect
- 4 to put away
- 5 to restrain
- 6 to stop
- 7 in care of (used on address line after name)
- 1 to receive
- 1 to put in order
- 2 to tidy up
- 3 to pack
- 4 to repair
- 5 (coll.) to sort sb out
- 6 to fix sb
- 1 variant: 收获 shōu huò
Idioms (20)
一清如水
- 1 lit. as clear as water (idiom)
- 2 fig. (of officials etc) honest and incorruptible
一碗水端平
- 1 lit. to hold a bowl of water level (idiom)
- 2 fig. to be impartial
一点水一个泡
- 1 honest and trustworthy (idiom)
三个和尚没水喝
- 1 lit. three monks have no water to drink (idiom)
- 2 fig. everybody's business is nobody's business
- 3 (If there is one monk, he will fetch water for himself. If there are two, they will fetch water together. But if there are three or more, none will take it upon himself to fetch water.)
不显山不露水
- 1 lit. to not show the mountain and to not reveal the water (idiom); fig. to hide the key facts