反唇相讥 — Chinese idiom
反唇相讥
fǎn chún xiāng jī
Traditional: 反唇相譏
Meaning
- to answer back sarcastically; to retort
Character by character
- 反fǎnreverse, opposite; contrary, anti-
- 唇chúnlips
- 相xiāngmutual, reciprocal; equal; each other
- 讥jīto ridicule, to mock, to jeer
Idioms sharing a character
- 一反常态 yī fǎn cháng tài
- 反客为主 fǎn kè wéi zhǔ
- 反败为胜 fǎn bài wéi shèng
- 反目成仇 fǎn mù chéng chóu
- 反脸无情 fǎn liǎn wú qíng
- 反裘负刍 fǎn qiú fù chú
- 报本反始 bào běn fǎn shǐ
- 官逼民反 guān bī mín fǎn
- 易如反掌 yì rú fǎn zhǎng
- 欲益反损 yù yì fǎn sǔn
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