蹿房越脊 — Chinese idiom
蹿房越脊
cuān fáng yuè jǐ
Traditional: 躥房越脊
Meaning
- lit. to leap the house and cross the roofridge ; dashing over rooftops (of robbers and pursuing knight-errant 俠客|侠客 in fiction)
Character by character
- 蹿cuānto jump, to leap; to gush, to spurt
- 房fángbuilding, house, room
- 越yuèto exceed, to surpass, to transcend
- 脊jǐspine, backbone; ridge
Idioms sharing a character
- 宠擅专房 chǒng shàn zhuān fáng
- 房前屋后 fáng qián wū hòu
- 文房四宝 wén fáng sì bǎo
- 洞房花烛 dòng fáng huā zhú
- 吴越同舟 Wú Yuè tóng zhōu
- 杀人越货 shā rén yuè huò
- 翻山越岭 fān shān yuè lǐng
- 越俎代庖 yuè zǔ dài páo
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