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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- lit. intense fire to dry wood (idiom); inferno in a woodpile
- fig. consuming passion between lovers
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to get angry
- 2 to suffer from excessive internal heat (TCM)
- 1 intense
- 2 (violently) strong
- 1 (of competition or fighting) intense
- 2 fierce
- 3 (of pain) acute
- 4 (of an expression of opinion) impassioned
- 5 vehement
- 6 (of a course of action) drastic
- 7 extreme
- 1 surname Huo
- 1 Mars (planet)
Idioms (20)
不到火候不揭锅
- 1 don't act until the time is ripe (idiom)
不当家不知柴米贵
- 1 a person who doesn't manage a household would not be aware how expensive it is (idiom)
刀山火海
- 1 lit. mountains of daggers and seas of flames
- 2 fig. extreme danger (idiom)
厝火积薪
- 1 lit. to put a fire under a pile of firewood (idiom)
- 2 fig. hidden danger
- 3 imminent danger
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