1 sweep the snow from your own door step, don't worry about the frost on your neighbor's roof (idiom)
报仇雪耻
bào chóu xuě chǐ
1 to take revenge and erase humiliation (idiom)
报仇雪恨
bào chóu xuě hèn
1 to take revenge and wipe out a grudge (idiom)
牡丹虽好,全仗绿叶扶
mǔ dan suī hǎo , quán zhàng lu:4 yè fú
1 Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom). However brilliant you may be, you can't do anything without support from others.
牡丹虽好,全仗绿叶扶持
mǔ dan suī hǎo , quán zhàng lu:4 yè fú chí
1 Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom). However brilliant you may be, you can't do anything without support from others.
狗仗人势
gǒu zhàng rén shì
1 a dog threatens based on master's power (idiom); to use one's position to bully others
疏财仗义
shū cái zhàng yì
1 distributing money, fighting for virtue (idiom); fig. generous in helping the needy
程门立雪
Chéng mén lì xuě
1 lit. the snow piles up at Cheng Yi's door (idiom)
2 fig. deep reverence for one's master
聚萤映雪
jù yíng yìng xuě
1 lit. to collect fireflies and study by their light (idiom); fig. ambitious student from impoverished background
2 burning the midnight oil
雪上加霜
xuě shàng jiā shuāng
1 to add hail to snow (idiom); one disaster on top of another
2 to make things worse in a bad situation
雪中送炭
xuě zhōng sòng tàn
1 lit. to send charcoal in snowy weather (idiom)
2 fig. to provide help in sb's hour of need
雪泥鸿爪
xuě ní hóng zhǎo
1 a goose's footprint in the snow
2 vestiges of the past (idiom)
3 the fleeting nature of human life (idiom)
风花雪月
fēng huā xuě yuè
1 wind, flower, snow and moon, trite poetry subject (idiom); effete language without substance