排山壓卵
pái​shān​yā​luǎn

to use overwhelming force to crush something fragile

  • created reference approved 排山压卵/排山壓卵 → 以汤沃雪/以湯沃雪 (synonym) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    排山压卵 / 排山壓卵 pái​shān​yā​luǎn

    以汤沃雪 / 以湯沃雪 yǐ​tāng​wò​xuě

    synonym

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

    created reference

  • created sense approved 排山压卵/排山壓卵 · pái​shān​yā​luǎn · to use overwhelming force to crush something fragile — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    排山压卵 / 排山壓卵

    pái​shān​yā​luǎn

    to use overwhelming force to crush something fragile

    describes an action that makes a disastrous outcome inevitable and easy to achieve; literally to push over a mountain to crush an egg

    排 (literal) → 排 · pái · to exclude 山 (literal) → 山 · shān · mountain 压 (literal) → 压/壓 · yā · to press 卵 (literal) → 卵 · luǎn · egg; ovum; spawn

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

    created sense