吞云吐雾 — Chinese idiom
吞云吐雾
tūn yún tǔ wù
Traditional: 吞雲吐霧
Meaning
- to swallow clouds and blow out fog
- to blow cigarette or opium smoke
Character by character
- 吞tūnto absorb, to annex; to engulf; to swallow
- 云yúncloud; to say, to speak
- 吐tǔto vomit, to spew out, to cough up; to say
- 雾wùfog, mist, vapor, fine spray
Idioms sharing a character
- 吞吞吐吐 tūn tūn tǔ tǔ
- 囫囵吞枣 hú lún tūn zǎo
- 忍气吞声 rěn qì tūn shēng
- 狼吞虎咽 láng tūn hǔ yàn
- 生吞活剥 shēng tūn huó bō
- 蚕食鲸吞 cán shí jīng tūn
- 饮恨吞声 yǐn hèn tūn shēng
- 九霄云外 jiǔ xiāo yún wài
- 人云亦云 rén yún yì yún
- 判若云泥 pàn ruò yún ní
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