扫除天下 — Chinese idiom
扫除天下
sǎo chú tiān xià
Traditional: 掃除天下
Meaning
- to re-establish order throughout the empire
Character by character
- 扫sǎoto clean, to sweep, to wipe away; to weed out; to
- 除chúto eliminate, to remove, to wipe out
- 天tiānsky, heaven; god, celestial
- 下xiàbelow, underneath; inferior; to bring down; next
Idioms sharing a character
- 一扫而空 yī sǎo ér kōng
- 颜面扫地 yán miàn sǎo dì
- 加减乘除 jiā jiǎn chéng chú
- 斩草除根 zhǎn cǎo chú gēn
- 为民除害 wèi mín chú hài
- 破除迷信 pò chú mí xìn
- 兴利除弊 xīng lì chú bì
- 药到病除 yào dào bìng chú
- 除恶务尽 chú è wù jìn
- 除暴安良 chú bào ān liáng
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