变生肘腋
biàn​shēng​zhǒu​yè

trouble in one's own backyard

  • created reference approved 变生肘腋/變生肘腋 → 祸生肘腋/禍生肘腋 (variant) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    变生肘腋 / 變生肘腋 biàn​shēng​zhǒu​yè

    祸生肘腋 / 禍生肘腋 huò​shēng​zhǒu​yè

    variant

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

    created reference

  • created reference approved 变生肘腋/變生肘腋 → 事生肘腋 (variant) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    变生肘腋 / 變生肘腋 biàn​shēng​zhǒu​yè

    事生肘腋 shì​shēng​zhǒu​yè

    variant

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

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  • created sense approved 变生肘腋/變生肘腋 · biàn​shēng​zhǒu​yè · trouble in one's own backyard — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    变生肘腋 / 變生肘腋

    biàn​shēng​zhǒu​yè

    trouble in one's own backyard

    (idiom) a major crisis or betrayal occurring very close at hand, such as among close friends or family; literally "a calamity arising from one's armpit"

    变 (literal) → 变/變 · biàn · incident 生 (literal) → 生 · shēng · to give rise to 肘腋 (literal) → 肘腋 · zhǒu​yè · elbow and armpit

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

    created sense