墙倒众人推牆倒眾人推 1.lit. when a wall is about to collapse, everybody gives it a shove (idiom)2.fig. everybody hits a man who is down
like beans pouring out of a bamboo tube (metaphor for blurting everything out at once)
东风压倒西风東風壓倒西風 1.lit. the east wind prevails over the west wind (idiom)2.fig. one side prevails over the other3.progressive ideas prevail over reactionary ones
see 翻江倒海[fān jiāng dǎo hǎi]
1.instead2.on the contrary3.contrary (to expectations)
1.mirror writing2.upside down writing
1.to move (things around)2.to buy and sell at a profit (derog.)
Taiwan political movement aimed at forcing the resignation of President Chen Shui-bian 陈水扁[chén shuǐ biǎn] in 2006 over corruption allegations
to collapse (of building)
to die out (of livestock)
to have smoke billowing from a fireplace or stove (due to a blockage in the chimney)
1.(cinema) to rewind (a reel)2.(photography) to rewind (a roll of film)
1.phase reversal2.phase inversion
backwards; in reverse; upside down
1.mischief2.to make trouble
1.to reverse a vehicle2.to drive backwards
1.but on the contrary2.but unexpectedly
1.to collapse2.to crash down3.to fall down in a heap
to interrogate, leaving sb speechless
the north-facing room opposite the master's in a siheyuan 四合院[sì hé yuàn]
1.jeering2.booing3.catcalls
1.inverted image2.reversed image (e.g. upside down)
with one's hands behind one's back
to have rotten luck (stronger version of 倒霉[dǎo méi])
Oh that's true! (interjection of sudden realization)
Timber! (lumberjack's warning call)
to violate the natural order; to defy social norms
Wrightia tinctoria (flowering plant in Apocynaceae family, common names dyer's oleander or pala indigo)
1.lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation2.dire straits
erhua variant of 倒背手[dào bèi shǒu]
erhua variant of 倒霉蛋[dǎo méi dàn]
to laugh until it hurts; to laugh heartily
destitute; poverty-stricken
1.lit. a willow that bends with the wind2.one with no fixed principles (idiom)
to gasp (in surprise, dismay, fright etc)
倒吸一口凉气倒吸一口涼氣 1.to gasp (with amazement or shock etc)2.to feel a chill run down one's spine3.to have one's hairs stand on end
病来如山倒，病去如抽丝病來如山倒，病去如抽絲, sickness comes like a landslide, but goes slowly like spinning silk (idiom); expect to convalesce slowly