瓢泼大雨 — Chinese idiom
瓢泼大雨
piáo pō dà yǔ
Traditional: 瓢潑大雨
Meaning
- downpour
Character by character
- 瓢piáoa ladle made from a dried gourd
- 泼pōto pour, to splash, to sprinkle, to water
- 大dàbig, great, vast, high, deep
- 雨yǔrain
Idioms sharing a character
- 疏水箪瓢 shū shuǐ dān piáo
- 泼水难收 pō shuǐ nán shōu
- 不识大体 bù shí dà tǐ
- 久仰大名 jiǔ yǎng dà míng
- 倾盆大雨 qīng pén dà yǔ
- 元恶大憝 yuán è dà duì
- 冒大不韪 mào dà bù wěi
- 功莫大焉 gōng mò dà yān
- 勃然大怒 bó rán dà nù
- 博大精深 bó dà jīng shēn
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