天下乌鸦一般黑
tiān​xià​wū​yā​yī​bān​hēi

evil people are bad everywhere

  • created reference approved 天下乌鸦一般黑/天下烏鴉一般黑 → 天下老鸹一般黑/天下老鴰一般黑 (synonym) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    天下乌鸦一般黑 / 天下烏鴉一般黑 tiān​xià​wū​yā​yī​bān​hēi

    天下老鸹一般黑 / 天下老鴰一般黑 tiān​xià​lǎo​guā​yī​bān​hēi

    synonym

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

    created reference

  • created sense approved 天下乌鸦一般黑/天下烏鴉一般黑 · tiān​xià​wū​yā​yī​bān​hēi · evil people are bad everywhere — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    天下乌鸦一般黑 / 天下烏鴉一般黑

    tiān​xià​wū​yā​yī​bān​hēi

    evil people are bad everywhere

    literally "all crows under heaven are equally black"; used to mean that bad people or things of the same type are equally evil regardless of where they are

    tiān​xià​wū​yā​yì​bān​hēi

    天下 (literal) → 天下 · tiān​xià · the world 乌鸦 (literal) → 乌鸦/烏鴉 · wū​yā · crow 一般 (literal) → 一般 · yī​bān · same 黑 (literal) → 黑 · hēi · black

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

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