鸟枪换炮 — Chinese idiom
鸟枪换炮
niǎo qiāng huàn pào
Traditional: 鳥槍換炮
Meaning
- bird shotgun replaced by cannon ; equipment improved enormously
Character by character
- 鸟niǎobird
- 枪qiānggun, rife; lance, spear
- 换huànto change; to exchange, to swap, to trade
- 炮pàocannon, artillery
Idioms sharing a character
- 一石二鸟 yī shí èr niǎo
- 作鸟兽散 zuò niǎo shòu sàn
- 如鸟兽散 rú niǎo shòu sàn
- 小鸟依人 xiǎo niǎo yī rén
- 乌鸟私情 wū niǎo sī qíng
- 笨鸟先飞 bèn niǎo xiān fēi
- 笼鸟槛猿 lóng niǎo jiàn yuán
- 惊弓之鸟 jīng gōng zhī niǎo
- 鸟尽弓藏 niǎo jìn gōng cáng
- 鸟语花香 niǎo yǔ huā xiāng
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