鬼哭狼嚎
guǐ kū láng háo
Pinyin
Definition
鬼哭狼嚎
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- to wail like ghosts and howl like wolves (idiom)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to cry
- 2 to weep
- 1 ghost
- 2 demon
- 3 terrible
- 4 damnable
- 5 clever
- 6 sly
- 7 crafty
- 8 (suffix for sb with a certain vice or addiction etc)
- 9 one of the 28 constellations
- 1 leech
- 2 bloodsucking vermin
- 3 vampire (translated European notion)
- 4 fig. cruel exploiter, esp. a capitalist exploiting the workers
- 1 to weep
Idioms (20)
一哭二闹三上吊
- 1 to make a terrible scene (idiom)
- 2 to throw a tantrum
五鬼闹判
- 1 Five ghosts mock the judge, or Five ghosts resist judgment (title of folk opera, idiom); important personage mobbed by a crowd of ne'er-do-wells
前怕狼后怕虎
- 1 lit. to fear the wolf in front and the tiger behind (idiom)
- 2 fig. to be full of needless fears
- 3 reds under the beds
前门打虎,后门打狼
- 1 to beat a tiger from the front door, only to have a wolf come in at the back (idiom); fig. facing one problem after another
前门拒虎,后门进狼
- 1 to beat a tiger from the front door, only to have a wolf come in at the back (idiom); fig. facing one problem after another