生吞活剥 — Chinese idiom
生吞活剥
shēng tūn huó bō
Traditional: 生吞活剝
Meaning
- to swallow whole ; fig. to apply uncritically
Character by character
- 生shēnglife, lifetime; birth; growth
- 吞tūnto absorb, to annex; to engulf; to swallow
- 活huóto exist, to live, to survive; living, working
- 剥bōto peel, to skin; to exploit
Idioms sharing a character
- 一生一世 yī shēng yī shì
- 一线生机 yī xiàn shēng jī
- 七窍生烟 qī qiào shēng yān
- 三生有幸 sān shēng yǒu xìng
- 九死一生 jiǔ sǐ yī shēng
- 了无生趣 liǎo wú shēng qù
- 人生如梦 rén shēng rú mèng
- 人生朝露 rén shēng zhāo lù
- 再生父母 zài shēng fù mǔ
- 出生入死 chū shēng rù sǐ
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