祸不旋踵 — Chinese idiom
祸不旋踵
huò bù xuán zhǒng
Traditional: 禍不旋踵
Meaning
- trouble is never far away
Character by character
- 祸huòmisfortune, disaster, calamity
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 旋xuánto revolve, to orbit, to return
- 踵zhǒngheel; to follow; to visit, to call on
Idioms sharing a character
- 包藏祸心 bāo cáng huò xīn
- 因祸得福 yīn huò dé fú
- 天灾人祸 tiān zāi rén huò
- 嫁祸于人 jià huò yú rén
- 幸灾乐祸 xìng zāi lè huò
- 杀身之祸 shā shēn zhī huò
- 祸不单行 huò bù dān xíng
- 祸国殃民 huò guó yāng mín
- 祸从口出 huò cóng kǒu chū
- 祸福无常 huò fú wú cháng
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