皮开肉绽 — Chinese idiom
皮开肉绽
pí kāi ròu zhàn
Traditional: 皮開肉綻
Meaning
- flesh lacerated from corporal punishment
Character by character
- 皮pískin, hide, fur, feathers
- 开kāito open; to start, to initiate, to begin
- 肉ròumeat; flesh
- 绽zhànto crack; to burst open; to split at the seams
Idioms sharing a character
- 死皮赖脸 sǐ pí lài liǎn
- 皮包骨头 pí bāo gǔ tóu
- 磨嘴皮子 mó zuǐ pí zi
- 粘皮带骨 nián pí dài gǔ
- 细皮嫩肉 xì pí nèn ròu
- 羊质虎皮 yáng zhì hǔ pí
- 与狐谋皮 yǔ hú móu pí
- 与虎谋皮 yǔ hǔ móu pí
- 鸡毛蒜皮 jī máo suàn pí
- 食肉寝皮 shí ròu qǐn pí
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