眼穿肠断 — Chinese idiom
眼穿肠断
yǎn chuān cháng duàn
Traditional: 眼穿腸斷
Meaning
- waiting anxiously
Character by character
- 眼yǎneyelet, hole, opening
- 穿chuānto drill, to pierce; to dress, to wear
- 肠chángintestines; emotions; sausage
- 断duànto sever, to cut off, to interrupt
Idioms sharing a character
- 一板一眼 yī bǎn yī yǎn
- 一板三眼 yī bǎn sān yǎn
- 一眼看穿 yī yǎn kàn chuān
- 一饱眼福 yī bǎo yǎn fú
- 以眼还眼 yǐ yǎn huán yǎn
- 冷眼旁观 lěng yǎn páng guān
- 合眼摸象 hé yǎn mō xiàng
- 大开眼界 dà kāi yǎn jiè
- 手眼通天 shǒu yǎn tōng tiān
- 打马虎眼 dǎ mǎ hu yǎn
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