大动干戈 — Chinese idiom
大动干戈
dà dòng gān gē
Traditional: 大動干戈
Meaning
- lit. to go to war
- fig. to make a big fuss over sth
Character by character
- 大dàbig, great, vast, high, deep
- 动dòngto move, to happen; movement, action
- 干gānarid, dry; to oppose; to offend; to invade
- 戈gēspear, lance, halberd
Idioms sharing a character
- 不识大体 bù shí dà tǐ
- 久仰大名 jiǔ yǎng dà míng
- 倾盆大雨 qīng pén dà yǔ
- 元恶大憝 yuán è dà duì
- 冒大不韪 mào dà bù wěi
- 功莫大焉 gōng mò dà yān
- 勃然大怒 bó rán dà nù
- 博大精深 bó dà jīng shēn
- 吃大锅饭 chī dà guō fàn
- 哄堂大笑 hōng táng dà xiào
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