一炮打响 — Chinese idiom
一炮打响
yī pào dǎ xiǎng
Traditional: 一炮打響
Meaning
- to hit the jackpot with a single shot; to achieve success at one's first try
Character by character
- 一yīone; a, an; alone
- 炮pàocannon, artillery
- 打dǎto attack, to beat, to hit, to strike
- 响xiǎngto make noise, to make sound; sound
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
- 一刀两断 yī dāo liǎng duàn
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