挑拨离间 — Chinese idiom
挑拨离间
tiǎo bō lí jiàn
Traditional: 挑撥離間
Meaning
- to sow dissension ; to drive a wedge between
Character by character
- 挑tiǎoto select, to choose; picky, choosy; a load
- 拨bōto stir, to move, to distribute, to allocate
- 离lírare beast; strange; elegant
- 间jiànbetween, among; midpoint; space, place, locality
Idioms sharing a character
- 挑拨是非 tiǎo bō shì fēi
- 挑灯夜战 tiǎo dēng yè zhàn
- 挑肥拣瘦 tiāo féi jiǎn shòu
- 目挑心招 mù tiǎo xīn zhāo
- 拨云见日 bō yún jiàn rì
- 不离不弃 bù lí bù qì
- 分崩离析 fēn bēng lí xī
- 妻离子散 qī lí zǐ sàn
- 寸步不离 cùn bù bù lí
- 支离破碎 zhī lí pò suì
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