bá​máo​lián​rú

pull up a plant and the roots follow

  • created sense approved 拔毛连茹/拔毛連茹 · bá​máo​lián​rú · pull up a plant and the roots follow — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    拔毛连茹 / 拔毛連茹

    bá​máo​lián​rú

    pull up a plant and the roots follow

    literally pulling up a plant causes the roots to come out together; used to describe people or things being inextricably tangled together or involving others when one is picked out

    拔 (literal) → 拔 · bá · to pull up 毛 (literal) → 毛 · máo · hair 连 (literal) → 连/連 · lián · to link 茹 (literal) → 茹 · rú · vegetables

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

    created sense