街头巷尾 — Chinese idiom
街头巷尾
jiē tóu xiàng wěi
Traditional: 街頭巷尾
Meaning
- top of streets, bottom of alleys ; everywhere in the city
Character by character
- 街jiēstreet, road, thoroughfare
- 头tóuhead; chief, boss; first, top
- 巷xiàngalley, lane
- 尾wěitail; extremity, end; back, rear
Idioms sharing a character
- 大街小巷 dà jiē xiǎo xiàng
- 花街柳巷 huā jiē liǔ xiàng
- 街谈巷议 jiē tán xiàng yì
- 三天两头 sān tiān liǎng tóu
- 三头六臂 sān tóu liù bì
- 事到临头 shì dào lín tóu
- 傻头傻脑 shǎ tóu shǎ nǎo
- 冤家对头 yuān jiā duì tóu
- 出人头地 chū rén tóu dì
- 初露头角 chū lù tóu jiǎo
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