蹿房越脊 — Chinese idiom

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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