半路杀出个程咬金
bàn​lù​shā​chū​gè​chéng​yǎo​jīn

to have a wrench thrown in the works

  • created reference approved 半路杀出个程咬金/半路殺出個程咬金 → 程咬金 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    半路杀出个程咬金 / 半路殺出個程咬金 bàn​lù​shā​chū​gè​chéng​yǎo​jīn

    程咬金 chéng​yǎo​jīn

    see

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

    created reference

  • created sense approved 半路杀出个程咬金/半路殺出個程咬金 · bàn​lù​shā​chū​gè​chéng​yǎo​jīn · to have a wrench thrown in the works — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    半路杀出个程咬金 / 半路殺出個程咬金

    bàn​lù​shā​chū​gè​chéng​yǎo​jīn

    to have a wrench thrown in the works

    literally "Cheng Yaojin ambushes the enemy mid-way"; used to describe someone showing up unexpectedly and disrupting a plan or causing a situation to go wrong

    bàn​lù​shā​chū​ge​chéng​yǎo​jīn

    半路 (literal) → 半路 · bàn​lù · halfway 杀 (literal) → 杀/殺 · shā · to fight 出 (literal) → 出 · chū · [direction/result] 个 (literal) → 个/個 · ge · [measure] 程咬金 (literal) → 程咬金 · chéng​yǎo​jīn · Cheng Yaojin

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

    created sense