祸不单行
huò​bù​dān​xíng

misfortunes never come singly

  • created reference approved 祸不单行/禍不單行 → 福无双至/福無雙至 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    祸不单行 / 禍不單行 huò​bù​dān​xíng

    福无双至 / 福無雙至 fú​wú​shuāng​zhì

    see

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

    created reference

  • created sense approved 祸不单行/禍不單行 · huò​bù​dān​xíng · misfortunes never come singly — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    祸不单行 / 禍不單行

    huò​bù​dān​xíng

    misfortunes never come singly

    Misfortunes never come one at a time; often used to describe several bad things happening in quick succession.

    祸 (literal) → 祸/禍 · huò · disaster 不 (literal) → 不 · bù · not 单行 (literal) → 单行/單行 · dān​xíng · to happen alone

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

    created sense