lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow (idiom) / fig. also involving others / inextricably tangled together / Invite one and he'll tell all his friends.
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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.
to distinguish oneself / to be of outstanding talent
claw hammer
to weigh anchor
to pull out / to remove
topping (mining)
to raise (one's voice) / to overrate / to build up / to stand out / outstanding
(lit.) unwilling to spare a single hair (idiom) / (fig.) extremely stingy
see 別人牽驢你拔橛子|别人牵驴你拔橛子[]
outstandingly talented
lit. someone else stole the donkey / you only pulled up the stake it was tethered to (idiom) / fig. you're the least culpable, but you're the one who gets the blame
tall and straight
lit. to blow out the lamp and put out the candle (idiom) / fig. to die / to bite the dust / to be over and done with
fortitude
firm and indomitable (idiom) / tenacious and unyielding
(Tw) (slang) daddy (pun on 爸爸[])
hot swapping
to select
lit. to choose a general among the dwarves (idiom) / fig. to pick the best out of a bad group
lit. choose a general from among the dwarfs / fig. choose the best person available (out of a mediocre bunch)
elephant trunk clam / geoduck (Panopea abrupta), large clam with a long proboscis (native to the west coast of North America)
outstanding / to fast-track / to elevate / to free oneself from
lit. to intervene when one sees an injustice (idiom) / fig. to rush to the rescue / to play the white knight
to pull up by the roots / to uproot
to set out (of troops) / departure / start date (of military expedition)
lit. to grab feathers from a flying goose / fig. to seize any opportunity / pragmatic
handsome (of people) / graceful (of calligraphy)
shoehorn
shoehorn
toilet plunger
variant of 拔茅連茹|拔茅连茹[]
Bathsheba, wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David (according to the Hebrew Bible)
Amédée Courbet (1826-1885), a French admiral who won a series of important land and naval victories during the Tonkin campaign and the Sino-French War
branch of the Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑 nomadic people, founders of Wei 北魏 of the Northern Dynasties (386-534) / also written 拓跋
Hannibal (name) / Hannibal Barca (247-183 BC), Carthaginian general
Abbasid Empire (750-1258), successor of the Umayyad caliphate
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