油盐不进 — Chinese idiom
油盐不进
yóu yán bù jìn
Traditional: 油鹽不進
Meaning
- impervious to persuasion; unreceptive; impossible to get through to
Character by character
- 油yóuoil, fat, grease, lard; oil paints
- 盐yánsalt
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 进jìnto advance, to make progress; to come in, to enter
Idioms sharing a character
- 柴米油盐 chái mǐ yóu yán
- 油光可鉴 yóu guāng kě jiàn
- 油然而生 yóu rán ér shēng
- 油盐酱醋 yóu yán jiàng cù
- 添油加醋 tiān yóu jiā cù
- 滚油煎心 gǔn yóu jiān xīn
- 火上加油 huǒ shàng jiā yóu
- 火上浇油 huǒ shàng jiāo yóu
- 一丁不识 yī dīng bù shí
- 一尘不染 yī chén bù rǎn
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