随风倒舵 — Chinese idiom
随风倒舵
suí fēng dǎo duò
Traditional: 隨風倒舵
Meaning
- to trim one's sails with the wind
- to adopt different attitude depending on the circumstances
Character by character
- 随suíto follow, to listen to, to submit to
- 风fēngwind; air; customs, manners; news
- 倒dǎoto collapse, to fall over; to lie down
- 舵duòhelm, rudder
Idioms sharing a character
- 俗随时变 sú suí shí biàn
- 入乡随俗 rù xiāng suí sú
- 如影随形 rú yǐng suí xíng
- 嫁鸡随鸡 jià jī suí jī
- 安闲随意 ān xián suí yì
- 形影相随 xíng yǐng xiāng suí
- 情随事迁 qíng suí shì qiān
- 紧随其后 jǐn suí qí hòu
- 萧规曹随 Xiāo guī Cáo suí
- 随口胡诌 suí kǒu hú zhōu
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