搔到癢處
sāo​dào​yǎng​chù

to hit the nail on the head

  • created sense approved 搔到痒处/搔到癢處 · sāo​dào​yǎng​chù · to hit the nail on the head — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    搔到痒处 / 搔到癢處

    sāo​dào​yǎng​chù

    to hit the nail on the head

    To speak or act in a way that gets right to the heart of a matter or exactly meets someone's desires, resulting in great satisfaction.

    搔 (literal) → 搔 · sāo · to scratch 到 (literal) → 到 · dào · [resultative] 痒 (literal) → 痒/癢 · yǎng · to itch 处 (literal) → 处/處 · chù · point

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

    created sense