泼出去的水
pō​chū​qu​de​shuǐ

spilt water

  • created reference approved 泼出去的水/潑出去的水 → 覆水难收/覆水難收 (synonym) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    泼出去的水 / 潑出去的水 pō​chū​qu​de​shuǐ

    覆水难收 / 覆水難收 fù​shuǐ​nán​shōu

    synonym

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

    created reference

  • created sense approved 泼出去的水/潑出去的水 · pō​chū​qu​de​shuǐ · spilt water — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    泼出去的水 / 潑出去的水

    pō​chū​qu​de​shuǐ

    spilt water

    something that cannot be undone or retrieved, similar to the English idiom "spilt milk"

    pō​chū​qù​de​shuǐ

    泼 (literal) → 泼/潑 · pō · to splash 出去 (literal) → 出去 · chū​qu · [outward direction] 的 (bound) → 的 · de · [possessive/attributive] 水 (literal) → 水 · shuǐ · water

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

    created sense