褐喉沙燕
hè hóu shā yàn
Pinyin
Definition
褐喉沙燕
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- (bird species of China) grey-throated martin (Riparia chinensis)
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一盘散沙
- 1 lit. like a sheet of loose sand
- 2 fig. unable to cooperate (idiom)
来鸿去燕
- 1 lit. the goose comes, the swallow goes (idiom); fig. always on the move
劳燕分飞
- 1 the shrike and the swallow fly in different directions (idiom)
- 2 (usually of a couple) to part from each other
含沙射影
- 1 to attack someone by innuendo (idiom)
- 2 to make oblique charges
- 3 to make insinuations
- 4 to insinuate
如鲠在喉
- 1 lit. as if having a fish bone stuck in one's throat (idiom)
- 2 fig. very upset and needing to express one's displeasure