赴汤蹈火 [赴湯蹈火] - to go through water and tread on fire (idiom); not afraid of any difficulty - fù tāng dǎo huǒ | Definition | ChinesePod.com

赴汤蹈火 (赴湯蹈火)

fù tāng dǎo huǒ

Pinyin

Definition

赴汤蹈火 (赴湯蹈火)

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fù tāng dǎo huǒ

to go through water and tread on fire (idiom); not afraid of any difficulty

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

shàng huǒ

1 to get angry
2 to suffer from excessive internal heat (TCM)

Huǒ

1 surname Huo

Huǒ xīng

1 Mars (planet)

Huǒ xiàn

1 FireWire (IEEE 1394 data-transfer interface)

huǒ chē

1 train
2 classifier: 列 liè
3 classifier: 节 jié
4 classifier: 班 bān
5 classifier: 趟 tàng

Idioms (20)

不到火候不揭锅

bù dào huǒ hòu bù jiē guō

1 don't act until the time is ripe (idiom)

刀山火海

dāo shān huǒ hǎi

1 lit. mountains of daggers and seas of flames
2 fig. extreme danger (idiom)

前赴后继

qián fù hòu jì

1 to advance dauntlessly in wave upon wave (idiom)

努力以赴

nǔ lì yǐ fù

1 to use one's best efforts to do sth (idiom)

厝火积薪

cuò huǒ jī xīn

1 lit. to put a fire under a pile of firewood (idiom)
2 fig. hidden danger
3 imminent danger