忘年之交 — Chinese idiom
忘年之交
wàng nián zhī jiāo
Meaning
- friends with a significant age gap
Character by character
- 忘wàngto forget, to miss, to neglect, to overlook
- 年niányear; anniversary; a person's age
- 之zhīmarks preceding phrase as modifier of following ph
- 交jiāoto connect; to deliver, to exchange; to intersect;
Idioms sharing a character
- 公而忘私 gōng ér wàng sī
- 废寝忘食 fèi qǐn wàng shí
- 忘乎所以 wàng hū suǒ yǐ
- 忘恩负义 wàng ēn fù yì
- 念念不忘 niàn niàn bù wàng
- 舍生忘死 shě shēng wàng sǐ
- 数典忘祖 shǔ diǎn wàng zǔ
- 没齿难忘 mò chǐ nán wàng
- 发愤忘食 fā fèn wàng shí
- 见利忘义 jiàn lì wàng yì
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