大张挞伐 — Chinese idiom
大张挞伐
dà zhāng tà fá
Traditional: 大張撻伐
Meaning
- to launch an all-out attack
- to roundly condemn; to castigate
Character by character
- 大dàbig, great, vast, high, deep
- 张zhāngto display; to expand, to open; to stretch; a shee
- 挞tàto whip, to flog, to chastise
- 伐fácut down, subjugate, attack
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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