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| | (coll.) can't do anything about it / (coll.) there's no way that ...; it's simply not credible that ... / (coll.) couldn't be (better) (i.e. simply wonderful) | HSK 4 |
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| | air force / (slang) to fail to catch anything (on a fishing trip); to get skunked | HSK 6 |
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| | not having anything at all (idiom); utterly lacking / without two sticks to rub together | HSK 7-9 |
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| | peanut gallery (esp. in online forums) / onlookers who are interested in the spectacle but don't have anything knowledgeable to say about it / (neologism c. 2016) | |
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| | the rice is cooked / what's done is done / it's too late to change anything now (idiom) | |
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| | vegetative existence / to consume passively without doing anything useful | |
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| | the matter depends on the individual (idiom); it is a matter for your own effort / With effort, one can achieve anything. | |
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| | (idiom) not saying anything further; not raising any objection; without demur | |
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| | (idiom) (of one's circumstances) beyond one's control; unable to do anything about it; (of one's actions) not subject to conscious control (i.e. done in spite of oneself) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | without rules, how can anything be done (idiom); one must follow some rules | |
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| | not stopping at anything / all manner of evil | |
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| | lit. one palm alone cannot clap (proverb) / fig. it takes two persons to start a dispute / it takes two to tango / it's difficult to achieve anything without support | |
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| | (idiom) not knowing anything at all; completely ignorant | HSK 7-9 |
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| | unable to get anything to eat / to miss a meal | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. with money, you can get a devil to turn a millstone (idiom) / fig. with money, you can get anything done; money talks | |
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| | lit. human beings will die for riches, just as birds will for food (idiom) / fig. man will do anything in his means to become rich | |
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| | empty-handed (idiom); fig. not receiving anything | |
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| | Mr Goody-goody / yes-man (sb who agrees with anything) | |
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| | open and candid (idiom); not hiding anything / ingenuous | |
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| | to refuse to say anything about (idiom) / to remain tight-lipped / to avoid mentioning | |
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| | Since they have come, we should make them comfortable (idiom). Since we're here, take it easy. / Since this is so, we should accept it. / Now we have come, let's stay and take the rough with the smooth. / If you can't do anything to prevent it, you might as well sit back and enjoy it. | |
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| | there is nothing to be done / one can't do anything about it | |
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| | open and candid (idiom); not hiding anything / ingenuous / openhearted / unselfish / magnanimous / broad-minded | |
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| | not paying attention to anything (idiom); to idle time away | |
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| | unfit for anything / no good / useless / (of a sick person) beyond hope | |
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| | limited term of imprisonment (i.e. anything less than life imprisonment) | |
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| | Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom). However brilliant you may be, you can't do anything without support from others. | |
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| | (of a turn of events) not too encouraging / far from good / anything but reassuring | |
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| | fears of trouble in the rear (idiom); family worries (obstructing freedom of action) / worries about the future consequences / often in negative expressions, meaning "no worries about anything" | HSK 7-9 |
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| | at a loss / unable to do anything about it / to have no choice | |
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| | not to hold anything back (idiom) / (of close friends etc) to tell each other everything | |
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| | without concealing anything / to pass away / to die | |
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| | (adverbial expression indicating that the attention of the subject of the verb is focused on what they are doing, not distracted by anything else) / just ...ing (and nothing else) | |
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| | not to discard anything, whether small or big (idiom) / all-embracing | |
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| | don't get involved / ignore it! / don't have anything to do with (him, her etc) / don't speak to | |
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| | (idiom) powerless to do anything about it | HSK 7-9 |
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| | money is omnipotent (idiom) / with money, you can do anything / money talks | |
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| | It's hard to clap with only one hand. / It takes two to tango / It's difficult to achieve anything without support. | |
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| | open and candid (idiom); not hiding anything / ingenuous | |
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| | false proposition / fundamentally flawed notion / (in popular usage, can also refer to anything based on a flawed notion, such as a false dichotomy or a question that starts with a false premise) | |
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| | (idiom) to stop at nothing; to dare to do anything | |
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| | lit. to turn to any doctor one can find when critically ill (idiom); fig. to try anyone or anything in a crisis | |
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| | faulted at every turn (idiom); can't get anything right | |
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| | lit. to have one's hands bound and be unable to do anything about it (idiom); fig. helpless in the face of a crisis | |
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| | not to do anything productive / to idle away one's time | |
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| | lit. not hiding anything he knows, not stopping before he has said it through (idiom) / fig. frank; outspoken | |
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| | (idiom) not excluding anything; all-encompassing | |
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| | (self-deprecating) to have grown old without accomplishing anything (idiom) | |
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| | to pay lip service to / to keep mentioning (without doing anything) / to blather on about sth | |
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| | to have one's hands tied / helpless / unable to do anything about it | |
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| | to chat about this and that / to talk about anything and everything | |
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| | lit. don't tie your shoelaces in a melon patch, and don't adjust your hat under a plum tree (idiom) / fig. don't do anything that might arouse suspicion / innocent acts may be misconstrued | |
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| | (idiom) to have one's hands full managing one's own affairs / too busy to spare time for anything extra | |
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| | always / always regardless (of anything) | |
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| | little virtue and meager abilities (idiom); I'm a humble person and not much use at anything (Song writer Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修｜欧阳修) | |
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| | Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom). However brilliant you may be, you can't do anything without support from others. | |
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| | open and candid (idiom); not hiding anything / ingenuous / openhearted / unselfish / magnanimous / broad-minded | |
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| | with money, you can do anything (idiom) / money talks | |
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| | lit. my worn-out broom, a thousand in gold (idiom); fig. sentimental value / I wouldn't be parted with it for anything. | |
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| | at a loss / unable to do anything about it / to have no choice | |
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| | to sell anything / to sell everything | |
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| | no danger of anything going wrong / no risk at all | |
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| | to return empty-handed / to fail to win anything | |
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| | as empty as anything (idiom); completely bereft / to have nothing / vacuous / hollow / empty (argument, head etc) | |
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| | to premiere (a movie or TV show) / premiere (of a movie) / first-run (movie) / to greet (the eye) before anything else (e.g. when entering a room) | |
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| | anything / whatever | |
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| | to laze about without doing anything productive | |
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| | Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom). However brilliant you may be, you can't do anything without support from others. | |
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| | Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom). However brilliant you may be, you can't do anything without support from others. | |
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| | all taboos are off (idiom); anything goes / nothing is taboo | |
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| | abbr. for 生米煮成熟飯｜生米煮成熟饭, lit. the raw rice is now cooked (idiom); fig. it is done and can't be changed / It's too late to change anything now. | |
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| | does not count for anything / of no account | |
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| | lit. the raw rice is now cooked (idiom); fig. it is done and can't be changed / It's too late to change anything now. / also written 生米煮成熟飯｜生米煮成熟饭 | |
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| | unable to accomplish anything but liable to spoil everything (idiom) / unable to do anything right / never make, but always mar | |
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