直截了当 — Chinese idiom
直截了当
zhí jié liǎo dàng
Traditional: 直截了當
Meaning
- direct and plainspoken ; blunt
- straightforward
Character by character
- 直zhístraight, vertical; candid, direct, frank
- 截jiéto cut off, to obstruct, to stop; segment; interse
- 了liǎoclear; to finish; particle of completed action
- 当dàngappropriate, timely; to act, to serve; the sound o
Idioms sharing a character
- 单刀直入 dān dāo zhí rù
- 嘴快心直 zuǐ kuài xīn zhí
- 平铺直叙 píng pū zhí xù
- 径情直遂 jìng qíng zhí suì
- 心直口快 xīn zhí kǒu kuài
- 急转直下 jí zhuǎn zhí xià
- 是非曲直 shì fēi qū zhí
- 横冲直撞 héng chōng zhí zhuàng
- 理直气壮 lǐ zhí qì zhuàng
- 直情径行 zhí qíng jìng xíng
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