排忧解难 — Chinese idiom
排忧解难
pái yōu jiě nàn
Traditional: 排憂解難
Meaning
- to resolve a difficult situation and leave worries behind
Character by character
- 排páirow, rank, file; to eliminate, to remove
- 忧yōusad, grieving; melancholy, grief
- 解jiěto explain; to loosen; to unfasten, to untie
- 难nànhard, difficult, arduous; unable
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
- 排山倒海 pái shān dǎo hǎi
- 排难解纷 pái nàn jiě fēn
- 内忧外困 nèi yōu wài kùn
- 内忧外患 nèi yōu wài huàn
- 后顾之忧 hòu gù zhī yōu
- 忧心忡忡 yōu xīn chōng chōng
- 杞人之忧 Qǐ rén zhī yōu
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