洗碗池
xǐ wǎn chí
Pinyin
Definition
洗碗池
-
- kitchen sink
Character Decomposition
Idioms (11)
一碗水端平
- 1 lit. to hold a bowl of water level (idiom)
- 2 fig. to be impartial
以泪洗面
- 1 to bathe one's face in tears (idiom)
吃着碗里,看着锅里
- 1 lit. eyeing what's in the pot as one eats from one's bowl (idiom)
- 2 not content with what one already has
- 3 (of men, typically) to have the wandering eye
城门失火,殃及池鱼
- 1 a fire in the city gates is also a calamity for the fish in the moat (idiom); the bystander will also suffer
- 2 fig. you can't escape responsibility for your actions
- 3 ask not for whom the bell tolls - it tolls for thee
家贫如洗
- 1 extreme poverty (idiom); destitute
- 2 penniless
- 3 poor as church mice