翻云覆雨 — Chinese idiom
翻云覆雨
fān yún fù yǔ
Traditional: 翻雲覆雨
Meaning
- to produce clouds with one turn of the hand and rain with another ; fig. to shift one's ground
- tricky and inconstant
- to make love
Character by character
- 翻fānto upset, to capsize, to flip over
- 云yúncloud; to say, to speak
- 覆fùto cover; to overturn; to repeat; to reply
- 雨yǔrain
Idioms sharing a character
- 人仰马翻 rén yǎng mǎ fān
- 天翻地覆 tiān fān dì fù
- 翻天覆地 fān tiān fù dì
- 翻山越岭 fān shān yuè lǐng
- 翻江倒海 fān jiāng dǎo hǎi
- 翻空出奇 fān kōng chū qí
- 翻箱倒柜 fān xiāng dǎo guì
- 翻箱倒箧 fān xiāng dǎo qiè
- 翻老皇历 fān lǎo huáng lì
- 咸鱼翻身 xián yú fān shēn
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