灰不溜丢 — Chinese idiom
灰不溜丢
huī bu liū diū
Traditional: 灰不溜丟
Meaning
- gloomy and dull
- boring and gray
- unpleasantly murky
Character by character
- 灰huīashes; dust; lime, mortar
- 不buno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 溜liūto slip, to slide, to glide; slippery
- 丢diūto lose; to discard
Idioms sharing a character
- 吹灰之力 chuī huī zhī lì
- 死灰复燃 sǐ huī fù rán
- 灰头土脸 huī tóu tǔ liǎn
- 灰飞烟灭 huī fēi yān miè
- 万念俱灰 wàn niàn jù huī
- 面如灰土 miàn rú huī tǔ
- 一丁不识 yī dīng bù shí
- 一尘不染 yī chén bù rǎn
- 一字不差 yī zì bù chà
- 一字不提 yī zì bù tí
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3). Retrieved 2026-10-22.