密云不雨
mì​yún​bù​yǔ

trouble is brewing

  • created sense approved 密云不雨/密雲不雨 · mì​yún​bù​yǔ · trouble is brewing — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    密云不雨 / 密雲不雨

    mì​yún​bù​yǔ

    trouble is brewing

    Thick clouds but no rain; describes a situation where things have matured or reached a tipping point but have not yet actually happened.

    密云 (literal) → 密云/密雲 · mì​yún · dense clouds 不 (literal) → 不 · bù · not 雨 (literal) → 雨 · yù · to rain

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

    created sense