破竹建瓴
pò zhú jiàn líng
Pinyin

Definition

破竹建瓴
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pò zhú jiàn líng
  1. lit. smash bamboo, overturn water tank (idiom); fig. irresistible force

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

建
jiàn
  1. 1 to establish
  2. 2 to found
  3. 3 to set up
  4. 4 to build
  5. 5 to construct
建立
jiàn lì
  1. 1 to establish
  2. 2 to set up
  3. 3 to found
建筑
jiàn zhù
  1. 1 to construct
  2. 2 building
  3. 3 classifier: 个 gè
建行
Jiàn háng
  1. 1 China Construction Bank (abbr.)
建设
jiàn shè
  1. 1 to build
  2. 2 to construct
  3. 3 construction
  4. 4 constructive

Idioms (20)

一语道破
yī yǔ dào pò
  1. 1 one word says it all (idiom)
  2. 2 to hit the nail on the head
  3. 3 to be pithy and correct
不是鱼死就是网破
bù shì yú sǐ jiù shì wǎng pò
  1. 1 lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. it's a life-and-death struggle
  3. 3 it's either him or me
乘风破浪
chéng fēng pò làng
  1. 1 to brave the wind and the billows (idiom); to have high ambitions
势如破竹
shì rú pò zhú
  1. 1 like a hot knife through butter (idiom)
  2. 2 with irresistible force
勤俭建国
qín jiǎn jiàn guó
  1. 1 to build up the country through thrift and hard work (idiom)