滚瓜溜圆 (滾瓜溜圓)
gǔn guā liū yuán
Pinyin
Definition
滚瓜溜圆 (滾瓜溜圓)
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- (of animals) round and fat
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 idiot
- 2 fool
- 1 papaya (Carica papaya)
- 2 genus Chaenomeles of shrubs in the family Rosaceae
- 3 Chinese flowering quince (Chaenomeles speciosa)
- 1 to slip away
- 2 to escape in stealth
- 3 to skate
Idioms (10)
强扭的瓜不甜
- 1 lit. if you have to use force to break a melon off the vine, it won't taste sweet (because it's only when the melon is ripe that it can be removed with just a slight twist) (idiom)
- 2 fig. if sth is not meant to be, it's no use trying to force it to happen
捡了芝麻丢了西瓜
- 1 to let go of the big prize while grabbing at trifles (idiom)
溜须拍马
- 1 to smooth whiskers and pat a horse's bottom (idiom); to use flatter to get what one wants
- 2 to toady
- 3 boot-licking
滚瓜烂熟
- 1 lit. ripe as a melon that rolls from its vine (idiom); fig. to know fluently
- 2 to know sth inside out
- 3 to know sth by heart
灰不溜丢
- 1 gloomy and dull (idiom)
- 2 boring and gray
- 3 unpleasantly murky