祸不旋踵 — Chinese idiom

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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