打破砂锅问到底 dǎpòshāguōwèndàodǐ to get to the bottom of things Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 打破砂锅问到底 打破砂鍋問到底 dǎpòshāguōwèndàodǐ to get to the bottom of things To insist on getting a detailed answer or finding out the root cause of something. This idiom is a pun: a broken clay pot has a crack that goes to the bottom, and the word for crack 璺 wèn sounds like the word for ask 问 wèn. Cross-References Variant of 打破砂锅璺到底 dǎpòshāguōwèndàodǐ
打破砂锅问到底 打破砂鍋問到底 dǎpòshāguōwèndàodǐ to get to the bottom of things To insist on getting a detailed answer or finding out the root cause of something. This idiom is a pun: a broken clay pot has a crack that goes to the bottom, and the word for crack 璺 wèn sounds like the word for ask 问 wèn. Cross-References Variant of 打破砂锅璺到底 dǎpòshāguōwèndàodǐ