一刀两断 — Chinese idiom
一刀两断
yī dāo liǎng duàn
Traditional: 一刀兩斷
Meaning
- to make a clean break with; to have nothing more to do with
Character by character
- 一yīone; a, an; alone
- 刀dāoknife; old coin; measure
- 两liǎngtwo, both, pair, couple; ounce
- 断duànto sever, to cut off, to interrupt
Idioms sharing a character
- 一丁不识 yī dīng bù shí
- 一丘之貉 yī qiū zhī hé
- 一之为甚 yī zhī wéi shèn
- 一干二净 yī gān èr jìng
- 一了百了 yī liǎo bǎi liǎo
- 一事无成 yī shì wú chéng
- 一五一十 yī wǔ yī shí
- 一以贯之 yī yǐ guàn zhī
- 一元复始 yī yuán fù shǐ
- 一分一毫 yī fēn yī háo
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