天上掉馅饼
tiān​shàng​diào​xiàn​bǐng

to have something fall into one's lap

  • created sense approved 天上掉馅饼/天上掉餡餅 · tiān​shàng​diào​xiàn​bǐng · to have something fall into one's lap — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    天上掉馅饼 / 天上掉餡餅

    tiān​shàng​diào​xiàn​bǐng

    to have something fall into one's lap

    a meat pie falls from the sky; used as an idiom to describe unexpectedly gaining a benefit without putting in any effort

    天上 (literal) → 天上 · tiān​shàng · sky 掉 (literal) → 掉 · diào · to fall 馅饼 (literal) → 馅饼/餡餅 · xiàn​bǐng · pie

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

    created sense