双管齐下 — Chinese idiom
双管齐下
shuāng guǎn qí xià
Traditional: 雙管齊下
Meaning
- lit. to paint holding two brushes ; fig. to work on two tasks at the same time
- to attack one problem from two angles at the same time
Character by character
- 双shuāngpair, couple; both; measure word for things that c
- 管guǎntube, pipe, duct; to manage, to control
- 齐qíeven, uniform, of equal length
- 下xiàbelow, underneath; inferior; to bring down; next
Idioms sharing a character
- 一箭双雕 yī jiàn shuāng diāo
- 名利双收 míng lì shuāng shōu
- 寡二少双 guǎ èr shǎo shuāng
- 德艺双馨 dé yì shuāng xīn
- 才貌双全 cái mào shuāng quán
- 文武双全 wén wǔ shuāng quán
- 比翼双飞 bǐ yì shuāng fēi
- 福无双至 fú wú shuāng zhì
- 举世无双 jǔ shì wú shuāng
- 双宿双飞 shuāng sù shuāng fēi
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