开锣喝道 — Chinese idiom
开锣喝道
kāi luó hè dào
Traditional: 開鑼喝道
Meaning
- to clear a street by banging gongs and shouting loudly
Character by character
- 开kāito open; to start, to initiate, to begin
- 锣luógong
- 喝hèto drink; to shout, to call out
- 道dàomethod, way; path, road
Idioms sharing a character
- 信口开河 xìn kǒu kāi hé
- 别开生面 bié kāi shēng miàn
- 喜笑颜开 xǐ xiào yán kāi
- 大开大合 dà kāi dà hé
- 大开眼界 dà kāi yǎn jiè
- 左右开弓 zuǒ yòu kāi gōng
- 广开言路 guǎng kāi yán lù
- 情窦初开 qíng dòu chū kāi
- 放开手脚 fàng kāi shǒu jiǎo
- 旗开得胜 qí kāi dé shèng
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