天花乱坠 — Chinese idiom
天花乱坠
tiān huā luàn zhuì
Traditional: 天花亂墜
Meaning
- (lit.) a deluge of heavenly flowers
- (fig.) extravagant embellishments; hype
Character by character
- 天tiānsky, heaven; god, celestial
- 花huāflower, blossom; to spend (time or money)
- 乱luànanarchy, chaos; revolt
- 坠zhuìto drop, to fall down, to sink; heavy; weight
Idioms sharing a character
- 一柱擎天 yī zhù qíng tiān
- 一步登天 yī bù dēng tiān
- 三天两头 sān tiān liǎng tóu
- 上天入地 shàng tiān rù dì
- 不共戴天 bù gòng dài tiān
- 不啻天渊 bù chì tiān yuān
- 不见天日 bù jiàn tiān rì
- 九天仙女 jiǔ tiān xiān nǚ
- 九天揽月 jiǔ tiān lǎn yuè
- 人命关天 rén mìng guān tiān
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