搜索枯肠 — Chinese idiom
搜索枯肠
sōu suǒ kū cháng
Traditional: 搜索枯腸
Meaning
- to rack one's brains (for apt wording etc)
Character by character
- 搜sōuto seek, to search, to investigate
- 索suǒcable, rope; rules, laws; to demand, to exact; to
- 枯kūdried out, withered, decayed
- 肠chángintestines; emotions; sausage
Idioms sharing a character
- 搜肠刮肚 sōu cháng guā dù
- 不假思索 bù jiǎ sī suǒ
- 按图索骥 àn tú suǒ jì
- 敲诈勒索 qiāo zhà lè suǒ
- 冢中枯骨 zhǒng zhōng kū gǔ
- 枯木逢春 kū mù féng chūn
- 海枯石烂 hǎi kū shí làn
- 互诉衷肠 hù sù zhōng cháng
- 小肚鸡肠 xiǎo dù jī cháng
- 愁肠百结 chóu cháng bǎi jié
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