shì​tóng​shuǐ​huǒ

like water and fire

  • created reference approved 势同水火/勢同水火 → 如胶似漆/如膠似漆 (antonym) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    势同水火 / 勢同水火 shì​tóng​shuǐ​huǒ

    如胶似漆 / 如膠似漆 rú​jiāo​sì​qī

    antonym

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

    created reference

  • created sense approved 势同水火/勢同水火 · shì​tóng​shuǐ​huǒ · like water and fire — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    势同水火 / 勢同水火

    shì​tóng​shuǐ​huǒ

    like water and fire

    Describes two sides that are sharply opposed and cannot coexist, just like water and fire

    势 (literal) → 势/勢 · shì · situation 同 (literal) → 同 · tóng · same 水火 (literal) → 水火 · shuǐ​huǒ · extremes

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

    created sense