Vocabulary
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| 一见钟情 一見鍾情 | to fall in love at first sight (idiom) | Idiom |
| 起早贪黑 起早貪黑 | to be industrious, rising early and going to bed late | Idiom |
| 闻所未闻 聞所未聞 | unheard of; an extremely rare and unprecedented event | Idiom |
| 手下留情 手下留情 | lit. start off leniently (idiom); please do not be too strict with me; Do not judge me too harshly.; Look favorably on my humble efforts. | Idiom |
| 忘恩负义 忘恩負義 | to forget favors and violate justice (idiom); ingratitude to a friend; to kick a benefactor in the teeth | Idiom |
| 孤家寡人 孤家寡人 | one who is cut off from others (idiom); one who has chosen to follow a solitary path; (can also be an indirect way of referring to an unmarried person) | Idiom |
| 痴心妄想 痴心妄想 | to be carried away by one's wishful thinking (idiom); to labor under a delusion; wishful thinking | Idiom |
| 斤斤计较 斤斤計較 | to haggle over every ounce; (fig.) to fuss over minor matters; to split hairs | Idiom |
| 料事如神 料事如神 | to prophesy with supernatural accuracy (idiom); to have an incredible foresight | Idiom |
| 恭敬不如从命 恭敬不如從命 | deference is no substitute for obedience (idiom); (said to accept sb's request, invitation etc) | Idiom |
| 药到病除 藥到病除 | lit. the disease is cured the moment the medicine is taken (idiom); fig. (of a medical treatment) to give instant results; (of a solution or method) highly effective | Idiom |
| 胡作非为 胡作非為 | to run amok (idiom); to commit outrages | Idiom |
| 丧尽天良 喪盡天良 | devoid of conscience (idiom); utterly heartless | Idiom |
| 二一添作五 二一添作五 | lit. one half equals zero point five (division rule in abacus reckoning); to share fairly between two parties; to go fifty-fifty | Idiom |
| 是非曲直 是非曲直 | lit. right and wrong, crooked and straight (idiom); fig. merits and demerits; pros and cons | Idiom |
| 妖魔鬼怪 妖魔鬼怪 | demons and ghosts | Idiom |
| 拉拉扯扯 拉拉扯扯 | to tug at; to pull at sb aggressively; to take sb's hand or arm in a too familiar way; (derog.) to hobnob; to consort | Idiom |
| 执迷不悟 執迷不悟 | to obstinately persist in going about things the wrong way (idiom) | Idiom |
| 家破人亡 家破人亡 | family bankrupt and the people dead (idiom); ruined and orphaned; destitute and homeless | Idiom |
| 恩将仇报 恩將仇報 | to bite the hand that feeds one (idiom) | Idiom |
| 六神无主 六神無主 | out of one's wits (idiom); distracted; stunned | Idiom |
| 三寸不烂之舌 三寸不爛之舌 | to have a silver tongue; to have the gift of the gab | Idiom |
| 听天由命 聽天由命 | (idiom) to submit to the will of heaven; to resign oneself to fate; to trust to luck | Idiom |
| 前功尽弃 前功盡棄 | to waste all one's previous efforts (idiom); all that has been achieved goes down the drain | Idiom |
| 蒙在鼓里 矇在鼓裡 | variant of | Idiom |
| 心满意足 心滿意足 | perfectly contented (idiom); perfectly satisfied | Idiom |
| 人之常情 人之常情 | human nature (idiom); a behavior that is only natural | Idiom |
| 唉声叹气 唉聲嘆氣 | sighing voice, wailing breath (idiom); to heave deep sighs; to sigh in despair | Idiom |
| 阳奉阴违 陽奉陰違 | outward devotion but inner opposition (idiom); to pay lip service; to agree overtly, but oppose in secret | Idiom |
| 得意忘形 得意忘形 | so pleased as to lose one's sense of measure; beside oneself with joy | Idiom |
| 乌合之众 烏合之眾 | (idiom) rabble; disorderly band | Idiom |
| 聊胜于无 聊勝於無 | better than nothing (idiom) | Idiom |
| 打入冷宫 打入冷宮 | (idiom) to snub; to consign to the trash heap of history | Idiom |
| 前车之鉴 前車之鑑 | lit. a warning taken from the overturned cart ahead (idiom); fig. lesson learned by observing others' failures | Idiom |
| 喜怒无常 喜怒無常 | temperamental; moody | Idiom |
| 大张旗鼓 大張旗鼓 | (idiom) with great fanfare; on a grand scale | Idiom |
| 掌上明珠 掌上明珠 | lit. a pearl in the palm (idiom); fig. beloved person (esp. daughter) | Idiom |
| 舟车劳顿 舟車勞頓 | travel-worn | Idiom |
| 忍气吞声 忍氣吞聲 | to submit to humiliation (idiom); to suffer in silence; to swallow one's anger; to grin and bear it | Idiom |
| 独当一面 獨當一面 | to assume personal responsibility (idiom); to take charge of a section | Idiom |
| 在所不辞 在所不辭 | not to refuse to (idiom); not to hesitate to | Idiom |
| 一网打尽 一網打盡 | lit. to catch everything in the one net (idiom); fig. to scoop up the whole lot; to capture them all in one go | Idiom |
| 顺手牵羊 順手牽羊 | lit. to lead away a goat while passing by (idiom); fig. to opportunistically pocket sb's possessions and walk off | Idiom |
| 天灾人祸 天災人禍 | natural calamities and man-made disasters (idiom) | Idiom |
| 心有余而力不足 心有餘而力不足 | the will is there, but not the strength (idiom); the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak | Idiom |
| 孤魂野鬼 孤魂野鬼 | wandering ghosts without living descendants to pray for them (idiom); person who has no family or friends to rely on | Idiom |
| 釜底抽薪 釜底抽薪 | to take drastic measures to deal with a situation; to pull the carpet from under sb | Idiom |
| 狼心狗肺 狼心狗肺 | lit. heart of wolf and lungs of dog (idiom); cruel and unscrupulous | Idiom |
| 先发制人 先發制人 | (idiom) to gain the initiative by striking first; to preempt | Idiom |
| 一言难尽 一言難盡 | hard to explain in a few words (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly | Idiom |