棒打鸳鸯
bàng​dǎ​yuān​yāng

to break up a couple

  • created sense approved 棒打鸳鸯/棒打鴛鴦 · bàng​dǎ​yuān​yāng · to break up a couple — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    棒打鸳鸯 / 棒打鴛鴦

    bàng​dǎ​yuān​yāng

    to break up a couple

    To cruelly or forcibly separate a pair of lovers, especially by family or societal pressure; literally "to strike the mandarin ducks with a stick".

    棒打 (literal) → 棒打 · bàng​dǎ · to beat with a stick; bastinado 鸳鸯 (literal) → 鸳鸯/鴛鴦 · yuān​yāng · mandarin duck

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

    created sense