跳进黄河洗不清
跳进黄河洗不清
tiào jìn Huáng Hé xǐ bù qīng
lit. even jumping into the Yellow River can't get you clean; fig. to become inexorably mixed up; mired in controversy; in deep trouble
Traditional: 跳進黃河洗不清
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- lit. even jumping into the Yellow River can't get you clean
- fig. to become inexorably mixed up
- mired in controversy
- in deep trouble
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Related Words
媳妇熬成婆(xí fù áo chéng pó)· lit. even a submissive daughter-in-law will one day become a domineering mother-in-law (idiom)
→三江源(Sān jiāng yuán)· Sanjiangyuan National Nature Reserve, high plateau region of Qinghai containing the headwaters of Changjiang or Yangtze, Huanghe or Yellow River and Lancang or Mekong River
→不到黄河心不死(bù dào Huáng Hé xīn bù sǐ)· lit. not to stop until one reaches the Yellow River (idiom)
→中原(Zhōng yuán)· Central Plain, the middle and lower regions of the Yellow river, including Henan, western Shandong, southern Shanxi and Hebei
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