野叟曝言
Yě sǒu Pù yán
Pinyin
Definition
野叟曝言
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- Yesou Puyan or Humble Words of a Rustic Elder, monumental Qing novel by Xia Jingqu 夏敬渠[Xià Jìng qú]
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 old variant of 野[yě]
- 1 to expose (photography)
- 2 (fig.) to expose (a scandal)
- 3 (advertising) exposure
- 4 Taiwan pr. [pù guāng]
- 1 to leave a message
- 2 to leave one's comments
- 3 message
- 1 admonition
- 2 exhortation
- 3 dictum
- 4 the biblical Book of Proverbs
- 1 words
- 2 speech
- 3 to say
- 4 to talk
Idioms (20)
一曝十寒
- 1 one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp
- 2 sporadic effort
- 3 lack of sticking power
- 4 short attention span
一言一动
- 1 (one's) every word and deed (idiom)
一言一行
- 1 every word and action (idiom)
一言不发
- 1 to not say a word (idiom)
一言九鼎
- 1 one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight