Results for “马”

bit / mouthpiece

Strychnos nux-vomica

millipede

to be buried in a horse hide (idiom) / to give one's life on the battlefield

riding boots

horsewhip

morin khuur (Mongolian bowed stringed instrument)

to follow blindly (idiom) / to take as one's only guide

see 馬駒|马驹[mǎ jū]

monkey (dialect) / little monkey (affectionate term for children, subordinates)

mule

Spanish mackerel

Spanish mackerel

leech

red deer / fool / idiot (from Japanese "baka")

to distinguish horse and deer easily / to know right from wrong

(slang) mama / mom (pun on 媽媽|妈妈[mā ma])

(loanword) maté (drink)

(self-deprecating) to have grown old without accomplishing anything (idiom)

Portulaca oleracea (common purslane)

the splits (in gymnastics, dance or martial arts)

lit. once said, a team of horses cannot unsay it (idiom) / a promise must be kept

one ladle (of sth bad) spoils the (whole) pot (idiom) / one bad apple spoils the barrel

flat land one could gallop straight across (idiom) / wide expanse of flat country

three horses at the same trough (idiom, alluding to Sima Yi 司馬懿|司马懿[Sī mǎ Yì] and his two sons) / conspirators under the same roof

troika / (fig.) three driving forces / three-person leadership structure

lit. to be struck by an arrow and fall from one's horse / to suffer a serious setback (idiom)

(idiom) to tear off sb's four limbs and head using five horse-drawn carts (historical form of capital punishment) / (fig.) to tear apart / to utterly destroy / to brutally dismember

to suffer a crushing defeat (idiom) / in a pitiful state / in a complete mess / to roll (with laughter)

lit. people shouting and horses neighing (idiom) / fig. tumultuous / hubbub

riders tired and horses weary (idiom) / worn out / exhausted / spent / fatigued

lit. just as humans make mistakes, so can a horse stumble (idiom) / fig. everyone makes mistakes / even the best fall down sometimes

(saying) a person cannot become wealthy without windfall profits (or ill-gotten gains etc), just as a horse cannot get fat without night feed

Sagittarius spiral arm (of our galaxy)

tall and strong

see 伊瑪目|伊玛目[yī mǎ mù]

(loanword) gamma (Greek letter Γ, γ) / Taiwan pr. [jiāmǎ]

sawhorse

lit. to work like an ox, to work like a horse / fig. to work extremely hard

(coll.) male horse / stallion