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倒打一耙
倒打一耙
Chinese
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upset; turn over; to tip; to pour; to go home; to the contrary; inverted; to fall; to collapse; to topple; to change; to fail; bankrupt
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beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen
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one; 1; single; a; (before verbs) as soon as, once; (before a noun) entire (family, etc.)
!a rake; harrow
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!simp. and trad.
(倒打一耙)
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| 打
| 一
| 耙
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!Literally: “to strike with a muck-rake”.
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Idiom
倒打一耙
- to put the blame on one's victim, to make unfounded countercharges, to recriminate, to counter-attack