按下葫芦浮起瓢 ànxiàhúlufúqǐpiáo to solve one problem only to find another cropping up Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 按下葫芦浮起瓢 按下葫蘆浮起瓢 ànxiàhúlufúqǐpiáo to solve one problem only to find another cropping up (idiom) to push down the gourd only for the ladle to float up; to be unable to attend to everything at once because there are too many problems to handle Frequency Written text 0.038 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
按下葫芦浮起瓢 按下葫蘆浮起瓢 ànxiàhúlufúqǐpiáo to solve one problem only to find another cropping up (idiom) to push down the gourd only for the ladle to float up; to be unable to attend to everything at once because there are too many problems to handle Frequency Written text 0.038 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)