1 flavor

2 smell

3 hint of

1 to know

2 to become aware of

3 also pr. [zhī dao]

1 to seem

2 like

3 as

4 if

1 the ways of the world

2 the morals of the time

1 provided that

2 supposing that

3 if

1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)

2 fig. to ride on sb else's success

3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too

4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it

1 one word says it all (idiom)

2 to hit the nail on the head

3 to be pithy and correct

1 no use to tell others

2 let's keep this between ourselves (idiom)

1 compassion, duty, propriety and integrity (idiom); all the traditional virtues

2 mainly used sarcastically, to mean hypocritical

1 to use an opponent's own methods to obtain retribution (idiom, from Song dynasty neo-Confucianist Zhu Xi 朱熹); to get revenge by playing sb back at his own game

2 to give sb a taste of his own medicine