象牙海岸
Xiàng yá Hǎi àn
Pinyin
Definition
象牙海岸
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- Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast (Tw)
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
人不可貌相,海水不可斗量
- 1 you can't judge a person by appearance, just as you can't measure the sea with a pint pot (idiom)
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
侯门似海
- 1 lit. the gate of a noble house is like the sea
- 2 there is a wide gap between the nobility and the common people (idiom)