锒铛入狱 — Chinese idiom
锒铛入狱
láng dāng rù yù
Traditional: 鋃鐺入獄
Meaning
- lit. to get shackled and thrown in jail
- fig. to be put behind bars
- to get jailed
Character by character
- 锒lángchain, lock; ornament
- 铛dāngfrying pan; warming vessel
- 入rùto enter, to come in; to join
- 狱yùprison, jail; case; lawsuit
Idioms sharing a character
- 鼎铛玉石 dǐng chēng yù shí
- 一拥而入 yī yōng ér rù
- 上天入地 shàng tiān rù dì
- 不堪入耳 bù kān rù ěr
- 乘虚而入 chéng xū ér rù
- 先入为主 xiān rù wéi zhǔ
- 入土为安 rù tǔ wéi ān
- 入境问俗 rù jìng wèn sú
- 入情入理 rù qíng rù lǐ
- 入乡随俗 rù xiāng suí sú
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