目不交睫 — Chinese idiom
目不交睫
mù bù jiāo jié
Meaning
- lit. the eyelashes do not come together
- fig. to not sleep a wink
Character by character
- 目mùeye; to look, to see; division, topic
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 交jiāoto connect; to deliver, to exchange; to intersect;
- 睫jiéeyelashes
Idioms sharing a character
- 一目了然 yī mù liǎo rán
- 一目十行 yī mù shí háng
- 一叶障目 yī yè zhàng mù
- 令人瞩目 lìng rén zhǔ mù
- 伤心惨目 shāng xīn cǎn mù
- 剑眉星目 jiàn méi xīng mù
- 反目成仇 fǎn mù chéng chóu
- 名目繁多 míng mù fán duō
- 巧立名目 qiǎo lì míng mù
- 怒目相向 nù mù xiāng xiàng
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