焦熬投石
jiāo'áo​tóu​shí

doomed to fail

  • created sense approved 焦熬投石 · jiāo'áo​tóu​shí · doomed to fail — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    焦熬投石

    jiāo'áo​tóu​shí

    doomed to fail

    To throw scorched and brittle objects against a stone; used to describe a situation where failure is inevitable or someone is inviting their own destruction.

    焦 (literal) → 焦 · jiāo · burnt 熬 (literal) → 熬 · áo · to simmer 投石 (literal) → 投石 · tóu​shí · to throw a stone

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

    created sense