炮火连天 — Chinese idiom
炮火连天
pào huǒ lián tiān
Traditional: 砲火連天
Meaning
- cannon firing for days on end ; enveloped in the flames of war
Character by character
- 炮pàocannon, artillery
- 火huǒfire, flame; to burn; anger, rage
- 连liánto join, to connect; continuous; even
- 天tiānsky, heaven; god, celestial
Idioms sharing a character
- 一炮打响 yī pào dǎ xiǎng
- 一炮而红 yī pào ér hóng
- 丢轮扯炮 diū lún chě pào
- 如法炮制 rú fǎ páo zhì
- 放马后炮 fàng mǎ hòu pào
- 鸟枪换炮 niǎo qiāng huàn pào
- 干柴烈火 gān chái liè huǒ
- 刀山火海 dāo shān huǒ hǎi
- 厝火积薪 cuò huǒ jī xīn
- 大动肝火 dà dòng gān huǒ
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