兰艾同焚
lán'ài​tóng​fén

to destroy indiscriminately

  • created reference approved 兰艾同焚/蘭艾同焚 → 玉石俱焚 (synonym) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    兰艾同焚 / 蘭艾同焚 lán'ài​tóng​fén

    玉石俱焚 yù​shí​jù​fén

    synonym

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 兰艾同焚/蘭艾同焚 · lán'ài​tóng​fén · to destroy indiscriminately — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    兰艾同焚 / 蘭艾同焚

    lán'ài​tóng​fén

    to destroy indiscriminately

    literally to burn both orchids and weeds; to destroy the noble and the common alike or to have the good and the bad suffer the same fate

    兰艾 (literal) → 兰艾/蘭艾 · lán'ài · orchids and artemisias 同 (literal) → 同 · tóng · together 焚 (literal) → 焚 · fén · to burn

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense