一个天南,一个地北
yī ge tiān nán , yī ge dì běi
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1 to live miles apart (idiom)
不撞南墙不回头
bù zhuàng nán qiáng bù huí tóu
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1 to stubbornly insist on one's own ideas (idiom)
充耳不闻
chōng ěr bù wén
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1 to block one's ears and not listen (idiom); to turn a deaf ear
充饥止渴
chōng jī zhǐ kě
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1 to allay one's hunger and slake one's thirst (idiom)
南征北伐
nán zhēng běi fá
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1 war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters
南征北战
nán zhēng běi zhàn
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1 war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters
南征北讨
nán zhēng běi tǎo
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1 war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters
南箕北斗
nán jī běi dǒu
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1 the Winnowing Basket in the southern sky, and the Big Dipper in the north (idiom); sth which, despite its name, is of no practical use
南辕北辙
nán yuán běi zhé
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1 to act in a way that defeats one's purpose (idiom)
寿比南山
shòu bǐ Nán Shān
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1 Live as long as the Zhongnan Mountains! (idiom)
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2 Long may you live!
大江南北
Dà jiāng nán běi
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1 north and south sides of the Yangtze River (idiom)
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2 (fig.) all over China
打肿脸充胖子
dǎ zhǒng liǎn chōng pàng zi
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1 lit. to swell one's face up by slapping it to look imposing (idiom); to seek to impress by feigning more than one's abilities
汗牛充栋
hàn niú chōng dòng
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1 lit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. many books
漏脯充饥
lòu fǔ chōng jī
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1 to bury one's head in the sand (idiom)
滥竽充数
làn yú chōng shù
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1 lit. to play the yu 竽 mouth organ to make up numbers (idiom); fig. to make up the numbers with inferior products
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2 to masquerade as having an ability
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3 token member of a group
画饼充饥
huà bǐng chōng jī
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1 lit. to allay one's hunger using a picture of a cake
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2 to feed on illusions (idiom)
终南捷径
zhōng nán jié jìng
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1 lit. Mt Zhongnan is a shortcut to a ministerial job (idiom); fig. to take a shortcut to promotion