大張撻伐
dà​zhāng​tà​fá

to launch an all-out attack

  • created sense approved 大张挞伐/大張撻伐 · dà​zhāng​tà​fá · to launch an all-out attack — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    大张挞伐 / 大張撻伐

    dà​zhāng​tà​fá

    to launch an all-out attack

    (idiom) to launch a massive assault or to roundly condemn; to castigate or publicly denounce

    dà​zhāng​tà​fā

    大 (literal) → 大 · dà · greatly 张 (literal) → 张/張 · zhāng · to expand 挞伐 (literal) → 挞伐/撻伐 · tà​fá · to send a punitive expedition

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

    created sense