倒打一耙 — Chinese idiom
倒打一耙
dào dǎ yī pá
Meaning
- lit. to strike with a muckrake , cf Pigsy 豬八戒|猪八戒 in Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记; fig. to counterattack
- to make bogus accusations (against one's victim)
Character by character
- 倒dàoto collapse, to fall over; to lie down
- 打dǎto attack, to beat, to hit, to strike
- 一yīone; a, an; alone
- 耙páto rake
Idioms sharing a character
- 倒悬之危 dào xuán zhī wēi
- 倒悬之急 dào xuán zhī jí
- 倒悬之苦 dào xuán zhī kǔ
- 倒持泰阿 dào chí Tài ē
- 倒行逆施 dào xíng nì shī
- 倾箱倒箧 qīng xiāng dào qiè
- 排山倒海 pái shān dǎo hǎi
- 本末倒置 běn mò dào zhì
- 东倒西歪 dōng dǎo xī wāi
- 神魂颠倒 shén hún diān dǎo
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