另起炉灶 — Chinese idiom
另起炉灶
lìng qǐ lú zào
Traditional: 另起爐灶
Meaning
- lit. to set up a separate kitchen ; to start from scratch
- back to square one
- to start of on a new path
Character by character
- 另lìnganother; separate, other
- 起qǐto begin, to initiate; to rise, to stand up
- 炉lúfireplace, furnace, oven, stove
- 灶zàokitchen, oven, stove
Idioms sharing a character
- 另有企图 lìng yǒu qǐ tú
- 另请高明 lìng qǐng gāo míng
- 另谋高就 lìng móu gāo jiù
- 另辟蹊径 lìng pì xī jìng
- 一病不起 yī bìng bù qǐ
- 大起大落 dà qǐ dà luò
- 崛地而起 jué dì ér qǐ
- 平地起家 píng dì qǐ jiā
- 后起之秀 hòu qǐ zhī xiù
- 后院起火 hòu yuàn qǐ huǒ
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