除暴
chú bào
Pinyin
Definition
除暴
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- to eliminate outlaws
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一暴十寒
- 1 one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp
- 2 sporadic effort
- 3 short attention span
不畏强暴
- 1 not to submit to force (idiom); to defy threats and violence
剪草除根
- 1 lit. cut grass and pull out roots (idiom); fig. to destroy root and branch
- 2 to eradicate
斩草除根
- 1 to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch
- 2 to eliminate completely
暴虎冯河
- 1 lit. fight tigers with one's bare hands and wade across raging rivers (idiom)
- 2 fig. to display foolhardy courage