翻云覆雨 — Chinese idiom

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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