Vocabulary
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| 贼喊捉贼 賊喊捉賊 | lit. a thief crying "Stop the thief!" (idiom); fig. to accuse sb of a theft and try to sneak away oneself; to cover up one's misdeeds by shifting the blame onto others | Idiom |
| 知法犯法 知法犯法 | to know the law and break it (idiom); consciously going against the rules | Idiom |
| 迎来送往 迎來送往 | lit. to meet those arriving, to send of those departing (idiom); busy entertaining guests; all time taken over with social niceties | Idiom |
| 公事公办 公事公辦 | to do things in a strictly businesslike manner (idiom) | Idiom |
| 神清气爽 神清氣爽 | (idiom) full of vitality; relaxed and alert | Idiom |
| 略知一二 略知一二 | (idiom) to know just a little; to have a rough idea | 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 |
| 举手之劳 舉手之勞 | lit. the exertion of lifting one's hand (idiom); fig. a very slight effort | Idiom |
| 吉人自有天相 吉人自有天相 | Heaven helps the worthy (idiom) | Idiom |
| 九牛二虎之力 九牛二虎之力 | tremendous strength (idiom) | Idiom |
| 家破人亡 家破人亡 | family bankrupt and the people dead (idiom); ruined and orphaned; destitute and homeless | Idiom |
| 赶尽杀绝 趕盡殺絕 | to kill to the last one (idiom); to exterminate; to eradicate; ruthless | Idiom |
| 疑难杂症 疑難雜症 | dubious or hard-to-treat cases (medicine); hard cases | Idiom |
| 拐弯抹角 拐彎抹角 | lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom); fig. to speak in a roundabout way; to equivocate; to beat about the bush | Idiom |
| 万念俱灰 萬念俱灰 | every hope turns to dust (idiom); completely disheartened | Idiom |
| 漏网之鱼 漏網之魚 | lit. a fish that escaped the net (idiom); fig. sb or sth that slips through the net | Idiom |
| 以讹传讹 以訛傳訛 | to spread falsehoods; to increasingly distort the truth; to pile errors on top of errors (idiom) | Idiom |
| 顺水推舟 順水推舟 | lit. to push the boat with the current; fig. to take advantage of the situation for one's own benefit | Idiom |
| 一丝一毫 一絲一毫 | one thread, one hair (idiom); a tiny bit; an iota | 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 |
| 赴汤蹈火 赴湯蹈火 | lit. to jump into scalding water and plunge into raging fire (idiom); fig. to brave any danger; to go to any lengths (for a noble cause) | Idiom |
| 滴水不漏 滴水不漏 | lit. not one drop of water can leak out; watertight; rigorous (argument) | Idiom |
| 原封不动 原封不動 | lit. the original seal has not been disturbed (idiom); fig. left completely unchanged; untouched; intact | Idiom |
| 同病相怜 同病相憐 | fellow sufferers empathize with each other (idiom); misery loves company | Idiom |
| 出生入死 出生入死 | from the cradle to the grave (idiom); to go through fire and water; brave; willing to risk life and limb | 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 |
| 误入歧途 誤入歧途 | to take a wrong step in life (idiom); to go astray | Idiom |
| 推心置腹 推心置腹 | to give one's bare heart into sb else's keeping (idiom); sb has one's absolute confidence; to trust completely; to confide in sb with entire sincerity | Idiom |
| 不足挂齿 不足掛齒 | not worth mentioning (idiom) | Idiom |
| 贪得无厌 貪得無厭 | avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied | Idiom |
| 重蹈覆辙 重蹈覆轍 | lit. to follow in the tracks of an overturned cart (idiom); fig. to follow a path that led to failure in the past; to repeat a disastrous mistake | Idiom |
| 灵丹妙药 靈丹妙藥 | effective cure, miracle medicine (idiom); fig. wonder-cure for all problems; panacea; elixir | Idiom |
| 疲于奔命 疲於奔命 | (idiom) terribly busy; up to one's ears in work | Idiom |
| 贪生怕死 貪生怕死 | greedy for life, afraid of death (idiom); craven and cowardly; clinging abjectly to life; only interested in saving one's neck | Idiom |
| 临时抱佛脚 臨時抱佛腳 | lit. to clasp the Buddha's feet when danger arises (idiom); fig. to profess devotion only when in trouble; doing things at the last minute; making a hasty last-minute effort | Idiom |
| 遥遥无期 遙遙無期 | far in the indefinite future (idiom); so far away it seems forever | Idiom |
| 隔行如隔山 隔行如隔山 | different trades, worlds apart (idiom); to sb outside the profession, it is a closed book | Idiom |
| 扭扭捏捏 扭扭捏捏 | affecting shyness or embarrassment; coy; mincing (walk, manner of speech); mannered | Idiom |
| 荒无人烟 荒無人煙 | desolate and uninhabited (idiom) | Idiom |
| 草木皆兵 草木皆兵 | lit. every tree or bush an enemy soldier (idiom); fig. to panic and treat everyone as an enemy; to feel beleaguered | Idiom |
| 死有余辜 死有餘辜 | (idiom) to be so evil that even death would be insufficient punishment | Idiom |
| 条条框框 條條框框 | fixed framework (idiom); restriction of social conventions and taboos (usually derogatory); regulations and restrictions | Idiom |
| 人仰马翻 人仰馬翻 | to suffer a crushing defeat (idiom); in a pitiful state; in a complete mess; to roll (with laughter) | Idiom |
| 打家劫舍 打家劫舍 | to break into a house for robbery (idiom) | Idiom |
| 英雄所见略同 英雄所見略同 | lit. heroes usually agree (idiom); Great minds think alike. | Idiom |
| 以牙还牙 以牙還牙 | a tooth for a tooth (retaliation) | Idiom |
| 一本万利 一本萬利 | small capital, huge profit (idiom); to put in a little and get a lot out | Idiom |
| 爱莫能助 愛莫能助 | unable to help however much one would like to (idiom); Although we sympathize, there is no way to help you.; My hands are tied. | Idiom |
| 安居乐业 安居樂業 | to live in peace and work happily (idiom) | Idiom |
| 瞎说 瞎說 | to talk drivel; to assert sth without a proper understanding or basis in fact; not to know what one is talking about | Xiehouyu |