脱胎换骨
脱胎换骨
tuō tāi huàn gǔ
to shed one's mortal body and exchange one's bones (idiom); born again Daoist; to turn over a new leaf; fig. to change wholly; to create from other material (story, artwork etc)
verbidiom
Traditional: 脫胎換骨
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- (verb, idiom) to shed one's mortal body and exchange one's bones (idiom); born again Daoist
- to turn over a new leaf
- fig. to change wholly
- to create from other material (story, artwork etc)
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Related Words
掉(diào)— to fall
→脱骨换胎(tuō gǔ huàn tāi)— to shed one's mortal body and exchange one's bones (idiom); born again Daoist
→大事化小，小事化了(dà shì huà xiǎo , xiǎo shì huà liǎo)— to turn big problems into small ones, and small problems into no problems at all (idiom)
→孔融让梨(Kǒng Róng ràng lí)— Kong Rong giving up pears, classic moral story about Kong Rong 孔融[Kong3 Rong2] picking up smaller pears while leaving the bigger ones to his older brothers, still used nowadays to educate the young on courtesy and modesty
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