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leak / hole / gap / loophole
HSK 5
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to leak / to divulge / to leave out by mistake / waterclock or hourglass (old)
HSK 5
without missing a word
large though its mesh may be, no criminal can slip through the wide net of justice
(of a liquid or gas) to leak / to divulge; to leak (information)
HSK 7-9
to slip up; to overlook by negligence / careless omission; oversight
loose, but allows no escape (idiom, from Laozi 老子); the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape
tax evasion
to overlook / to miss / to omit
to lose sth due to leakage / to let sth slip through / a slip-up / an oversight
oil spill; oil leak / (fig.) boo! (opposite of 加油)
zero-day vulnerability (computing)
hourglass / sand filter
(of an argument, theory etc) full of flaws (idiom)
to make an indiscreet remark
(of pipes, ceilings, roofs etc) to leak water; to have a water leak
to divulge the will of heaven (idiom); to leak a secret / to let the cat out of the bag
to divulge / to leak / to reveal
perforated spoon / strainer spoon / skimmer
to divulge the will of heaven (idiom); to leak a secret / to let the cat out of the bag
lit. heaven's net has wide meshes, but nothing escapes it (idiom, from Laozi 73) / fig. the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape / you can't run from the long arm of the law
It's too late to plug the leak once ship is in the middle of the river. (idiom)
to divulge secrets
to leak electricity / (fig.) (coll.) to unintentionally arouse romantic interest (by being solicitous etc) / cf. 放電|放电
past one's prime / in one's declining years
careless mistake / slip-up
lit. a fish that escaped the net (idiom) / fig. sb or sth that slips through the net
to evade (taxes)
cloze (loanword) (Tw)
water clock / clepsydra
not one drop of water leaks (idiom); fig. thoughtful and completely rigorous / watertight
to repair a leaky roof / (dialect) to find fault; to nitpick / (slang) to score a bargain (esp. when the seller is unaware of the item's true value) / (slang) to take advantage of an unexpected opportunity
seepage / leakage
to leak air or gas
water-driven armillary sphere (Zhang Heng's famous astronomical apparatus)
to blurt out / to let slip
to evade (paying tax) / (tax) evasion
water clock; clepsydra / to drip
when it rains, it pours (idiom)
when it rains, it pours (idiom)
to mention some but omit many others (idiom) / to leave out much more than one includes
to take a wrong turn / to go wrong
(literary) late at night
to leak (information, secrets etc) / to smuggle and evade tax / to suffer shrinkage (partial loss of goods due to theft etc)
leak
funnel
hourglass / water clock / clepsydra
drain / underground drainpipe / floor gutter / 25th of 2nd lunar month
uterine bleeding
colander / strainer / sieve / leaky pot
tinker / artisan who fixes leaky pots
error and negligence
a leak (e.g. of chemicals)
lit. mysteries of heaven must not be revealed (idiom); must not be revealed / I am not at liberty to inform you.
to overlook / omissions / deficiencies
to check for leaks
funnel cloud
lit. not one drop of water can leak out / watertight / rigorous (argument)
lit. to eat rotten meat to assuage hunger (idiom) / fig. to disregard long-term consequences for short-term benefits; shortsighted
to miss / to leave out / to omit / to be omitted / to be missing / to slip through / to leak out / to seep away
omission / to leave out / missing
water clock used to mark night watches
gargoyle (architecture)


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