时乖命蹇 — Chinese idiom
时乖命蹇
shí guāi mìng jiǎn
Traditional: 時乖命蹇
Meaning
- bad times, adverse fate
Character by character
- 时shítime, season; period, era, age
- 乖guāiobedient, well-behaved; clever
- 命mìnglife; destiny, fate, luck; an order, instruction
- 蹇jiǎnlame, crippled; nag, donkey; slow, difficult
Idioms sharing a character
- 一时半刻 yī shí bàn kè
- 不识时务 bù shí shí wù
- 不识时变 bù shí shí biàn
- 俗随时变 sú suí shí biàn
- 切中时弊 qiè zhòng shí bì
- 切中时病 qiè zhòng shí bìng
- 及时行乐 jí shí xíng lè
- 名噪一时 míng zào yī shí
- 因时制宜 yīn shí zhì yí
- 应天顺时 yìng tiān shùn shí
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