排山倒海 — Chinese idiom
排山倒海
pái shān dǎo hǎi
Meaning
- lit. to topple the mountains and overturn the seas ; earth-shattering
- fig. gigantic
- of spectacular significance
Character by character
- 排páirow, rank, file; to eliminate, to remove
- 山shānmountain, hill, peak
- 倒dǎoto collapse, to fall over; to lie down
- 海hǎisea, ocean; maritime
Idioms sharing a character
- 力排众议 lì pái zhòng yì
- 大排长龙 dà pái cháng lóng
- 排兵布阵 pái bīng bù zhèn
- 排忧解难 pái yōu jiě nàn
- 排难解纷 pái nàn jiě fēn
- 不识泰山 bù shí Tài Shān
- 人山人海 rén shān rén hǎi
- 刀山火海 dāo shān huǒ hǎi
- 名落孙山 míng luò Sūn Shān
- 地动山摇 dì dòng shān yáo
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