筑室道谋 (築室道謀)
zhù shì dào móu
Pinyin
Definition
筑室道谋 (築室道謀)
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- lit. ask passers-by how to build one's house (idiom); fig. to have no idea what to do
- without a clue
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一人得道,鸡犬升天
- 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
- 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
- 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
- 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一语道破
- 1 one word says it all (idiom)
- 2 to hit the nail on the head
- 3 to be pithy and correct
不安其室
- 1 to be discontented with one's home
- 2 to have adulterous relations after marriage (of women) (idiom)
不足为外人道
- 1 no use to tell others
- 2 let's keep this between ourselves (idiom)
仁义道德
- 1 compassion, duty, propriety and integrity (idiom); all the traditional virtues
- 2 mainly used sarcastically, to mean hypocritical