跌跌撞撞
diē die zhuàng zhuàng
Pinyin
Definition
跌跌撞撞
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- to stagger along
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to knock against
- 2 to bump into
- 3 to run into
- 4 to meet by accident
- 1 to fall
- 2 to tumble
- 3 to trip
- 4 (of prices etc) to drop
- 5 Taiwan pr. [dié]
- 1 to tumble
- 2 to fall
- 3 fig. to suffer a reverse (in politics or business)
- 1 to fall
- 2 to tumble
- 1 to knock down
- 2 to knock over
- 3 to run over (sb)
Idioms (5)
不撞南墙不回头
- 1 to stubbornly insist on one's own ideas (idiom)
做一天和尚撞一天钟
- 1 lit. as a monk for today, toll today's bell (idiom)
- 2 fig. to do one's job mechanically
- 3 to hold a position passively
横冲直撞
- 1 lit. bashing sideways and colliding straight on (idiom); to push through shoving and bumping
- 2 to barge
- 3 to charge around violently
跌脚捶胸
- 1 lit. stamping and beating the chest (idiom); fig. angry or stressed about sth
跌至谷底
- 1 to hit rock bottom (idiom)