素昧平生
sù mèi píng shēng
Pinyin
Definition
素昧平生
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- to have never met sb before (idiom); entirely unacquainted
- a complete stranger
- not to know sb from Adam
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一回生二回熟
- 1 unfamiliar at first, but well accustomed soon enough (idiom)
一波未平,一波又起
- 1 before the first wave subsides, a new wave rises (idiom); a new problem arises before the old is solved
- 2 many twists and turns to a story
- 3 one thing after another
一生一世
- 1 a whole lifetime (idiom); all my life
一碗水端平
- 1 lit. to hold a bowl of water level (idiom)
- 2 fig. to be impartial
一马平川
- 1 flat land one could gallop straight across (idiom); wide expanse of flat country