打破砂鍋璺到底
dǎ​pò​shā​guō​wèn​dào​dǐ

get to the bottom of things

  • created sense approved 打破砂锅璺到底/打破砂鍋璺到底 · dǎ​pò​shā​guō​wèn​dào​dǐ · get to the bottom of things — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    打破砂锅璺到底 / 打破砂鍋璺到底

    dǎ​pò​shā​guō​wèn​dào​dǐ

    get to the bottom of things

    to insist on getting to the bottom of a matter; to be inquisitive. This form is a pun using a character meaning crack to replace a word meaning ask, suggesting that when a clay pot is broken, the crack goes all the way to the base

    打破 (literal) → 打破 · dǎ​pò · to break 砂锅 (literal) → 砂锅/砂鍋 · shā​guō · clay pot 璺 (literal) → 璺 · wèn · crack 到底 (literal) → 到底 · dào​dǐ · to the end

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

    created sense