满地找牙 (滿地找牙)
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Pinyin
Definition
满地找牙 (滿地找牙)
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- to be looking for one's teeth all over the floor
- (fig.) to get beaten up badly
- to beat the crap out of (sb)
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一个天南,一个地北
- 1 to live miles apart (idiom)
一败涂地
- 1 failed and wiped over the floor (idiom); to fail utterly
- 2 a crushing defeat
- 3 beaten and in a hopeless position
上天入地
- 1 lit. to go up to heaven or down to Hades (idiom)
- 2 fig. to go to great lengths
- 3 to search heaven and earth
上天无路,入地无门
- 1 lit. there is no road to the sky, nor door into the earth (idiom)
- 2 fig. to be at the end of one's rope
- 3 to be trapped in a hopeless situation
五体投地
- 1 to prostrate oneself in admiration (idiom); to adulate sb