Results for “倒”

lit. the east wind prevails over the west wind (idiom) / fig. one side prevails over the other / progressive ideas prevail over reactionary ones

to take a fall

When the tree topples the monkeys scatter. (idiom) / fig. an opportunist abandons an unfavorable cause / Rats leave a sinking ship.

saltwater intrusion

to slip and fall / to lose one's footing and fall

lit. when a wall is about to collapse, everybody gives it a shove (idiom) / fig. everybody hits a man who is down

sickness comes like a landslide, but goes slowly like spinning silk (idiom) / expect to convalesce slowly

to interrogate, leaving sb speechless

to knock sth over

lit. spirit and soul upside down (idiom) / infatuated and head over heels in love / fascinated / captivated

lit. to move mountains and drain seas / to transform nature

(idiom) to live in poverty and despair / down and out / destitute and without hope

impoverished and dejected / wretched and penniless

like beans pouring out of a bamboo tube (metaphor for blurting everything out at once)

to split one's sides laughing

to overturn / to overthrow / to capsize / to collapse

to overturn trunks and boxes / to make a thorough search (idiom)

lit. to rescue the people from hanging upside down (idiom, from Mencius) / to save the people from dire straits

destitute / poverty-stricken

to invert the importance of things (i.e. stress the unimportant and neglect the important) / lacking a sense of perspective / to put the cart before the horse

to go against the tide (idiom) / to do things all wrong / to try to turn back history / a perverse way of doing things

Oh that's true! (interjection of sudden realization)

to pass out drunk

to drive in reverse / fig. to take a backward step / retrogressive / trying to turn the clock back

to bend with the wind

lit. a willow that bends with the wind / one with no fixed principles (idiom)

to trim one's sails with the wind / to adopt different attitude depending on the circumstances (idiom)

not to pose a problem for sb / cannot stump sb

Timber! (lumberjack's warning call)

headstand

confused / disorderly / incoherent

to harp on / over and over / merely ring changes on a few terms

(idiom) to distort right and wrong / to deliberately mislead

lit. to invert black and white (idiom) / to distort the truth deliberately / to misrepresent the facts / to invert right and wrong

to have sexual intercourse

variant of 倒反天綱|倒反天纲[dào fǎn tiān gāng]

variant of 倒賬|倒账[dǎo zhàng]

Taiwan political movement aimed at forcing the resignation of President Chen Shui-bian 陳水扁|陈水扁[Chén Shuǐ biǎn] in 2006 over corruption allegations

variant of 倒持泰阿[dào chí Tài ē]

variant of 倒霉[dǎo méi]