象牙塔
xiàng yá tǎ
Pinyin
Definition
象牙塔
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- ivory tower
Character Decomposition
Idioms (17)
人心不足蛇吞象
- 1 a man who is never content is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant (idiom)
以眼还眼,以牙还牙
- 1 an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth (idiom)
- 2 fig. to use the enemy's methods against him
- 3 to give sb a taste of his own medicine
伶牙俐齿
- 1 clever and eloquent (idiom); fluent
- 2 having the gift of the gab
合眼摸象
- 1 to touch an elephant with closed eyes (idiom); to proceed blindly
咬牙切齿
- 1 gnashing one's teeth (idiom); displaying extreme anger
- 2 fuming with rage between gritted teeth