敲门砖
敲门砖
qiāo mén zhuān
lit. a brick as a door knocker (idiom); fig. a temporary expedient; to use sb as a stepping stone to fortune
idiomverb
Traditional: 敲門磚
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- (idiom, verb) lit. a brick as a door knocker (idiom); fig. a temporary expedient
- to use sb as a stepping stone to fortune
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Related Words
权(Quán)— surname Quan
→拆东墙补西墙(chāi dōng qiáng bǔ xī qiáng)— lit. pull down the east wall to repair the west wall (idiom); fig. temporary expedient
→拆东补西(chāi dōng bǔ xī)— lit. pull down the east wall to repair the west (idiom); fig. temporary expedient
→挖肉补疮(wā ròu bǔ chuāng)— to cut one's flesh to cover a sore (idiom); faced with a current crisis, to make it worse by a temporary expedient
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