翻箱倒柜 (翻箱倒櫃)
fān xiāng dǎo guì
Pinyin

Definition

翻箱倒柜 (翻箱倒櫃)
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fān xiāng dǎo guì
  1. to overturn trunks and boxes
  2. to make a thorough search (idiom)

Related Words (20)

dǎo
  1. 1 to fall
  2. 2 to collapse
  3. 3 to lie horizontally
  4. 4 to overthrow
  5. 5 to fail
  6. 6 to go bankrupt
  7. 7 to change (trains or buses)
  8. 8 to move around
  9. 9 to resell at a profit
dǎo méi
  1. 1 to have bad luck
  2. 2 to be out of luck
fān
  1. 1 to turn over
  2. 2 to flip over
  3. 3 to overturn
  4. 4 to rummage through
  5. 5 to translate
  6. 6 to decode
  7. 7 to double
  8. 8 to climb over or into
  9. 9 to cross
yī biān dǎo
  1. 1 to have the advantage overwhelmingly on one side
  2. 2 to support unconditionally
xìn xiāng
  1. 1 mailbox
  2. 2 post office box

Idioms (20)

人仰马翻
rén yǎng mǎ fān
  1. 1 to suffer a crushing defeat (idiom)
  2. 2 in a pitiful state
  3. 3 in a complete mess
  4. 4 to roll (with laughter)
倒悬之危
dào xuán zhī wēi
  1. 1 lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
  2. 2 dire straits
倒悬之急
dào xuán zhī jí
  1. 1 lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
  2. 2 dire straits
倒悬之苦
dào xuán zhī kǔ
  1. 1 lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
  2. 2 dire straits
倒打一耙
dào dǎ yī pá
  1. 1 lit. to strike with a muckrake (idiom), cf Pigsy 豬八戒|猪八戒 in Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记; fig. to counterattack
  2. 2 to make bogus accusations (against one's victim)

Sample Sentences

你在干嘛啊?翻箱倒柜地折腾。
nǐ zài gànmá a ?fānxiāngdǎoguì de zhēteng 。
What are you doing? You're making a big mess, turning the place inside out.