Read Edit View history 太岁头上动土 tàisuìtóushangdòngtǔ to provoke a powerful person Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 太岁头上动土 太歲頭上動土 tàisuìtóushangdòngtǔ to provoke a powerful person (idiom) to provoke someone far more powerful; literally 'digging earth over the head of the God of the Year', referring to an ancient superstition that construction in the direction of the planet Jupiter would bring bad luck Frequency Written text 0.096 per million Cross-References See 太岁 tàisuì Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
太岁头上动土 太歲頭上動土 tàisuìtóushangdòngtǔ to provoke a powerful person (idiom) to provoke someone far more powerful; literally 'digging earth over the head of the God of the Year', referring to an ancient superstition that construction in the direction of the planet Jupiter would bring bad luck Frequency Written text 0.096 per million Cross-References See 太岁 tàisuì Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)