烈火干柴 (烈火乾柴)
liè huǒ gān chái
Pinyin

Definition

烈火干柴 (烈火乾柴)
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liè huǒ gān chái
  1. lit. intense fire to dry wood (idiom); inferno in a woodpile
  2. fig. consuming passion between lovers

Related Words (20)

shàng huǒ
  1. 1 to get angry
  2. 2 to suffer from excessive internal heat (TCM)
qiáng liè
  1. 1 intense
  2. 2 (violently) strong
jī liè
  1. 1 (of competition or fighting) intense
  2. 2 fierce
  3. 3 (of pain) acute
  4. 4 (of an expression of opinion) impassioned
  5. 5 vehement
  6. 6 (of a course of action) drastic
  7. 7 extreme
Huǒ
  1. 1 surname Huo
Huǒ xīng
  1. 1 Mars (planet)

Idioms (20)

不到火候不揭锅
bù dào huǒ hòu bù jiē guō
  1. 1 don't act until the time is ripe (idiom)
不当家不知柴米贵
bù dāng jiā bù zhī chái mǐ guì
  1. 1 a person who doesn't manage a household would not be aware how expensive it is (idiom)
刀山火海
dāo shān huǒ hǎi
  1. 1 lit. mountains of daggers and seas of flames
  2. 2 fig. extreme danger (idiom)
厝火积薪
cuò huǒ jī xīn
  1. 1 lit. to put a fire under a pile of firewood (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. hidden danger
  3. 3 imminent danger
城门失火,殃及池鱼
chéng mén shī huǒ , yāng jí chí yú
  1. 1 a fire in the city gates is also a calamity for the fish in the moat (idiom); the bystander will also suffer
  2. 2 fig. you can't escape responsibility for your actions
  3. 3 ask not for whom the bell tolls - it tolls for thee