yī tuī liù èr wǔ

alternative form of 一退六二五 (yī tuì liù èr wǔ, “to evade (or deny) all responsibility”)

yī wén bù zhí

not worth a penny; utterly worthless

yī wú suǒ qiú

to have no desires; to desire nothing

yī wú suǒ huò

💡 Хичээж хайгаад ч юу ч олсонгүй, гар хоосон үлдэх.

yī wú suǒ cháng

to not have any special skills or qualifications

yī shí wú liǎng

to be unrivalled for a period of time

yī wàng wú jì

💡 Хараад захыг нь олохгүй, тэнгэр газартай нийлсэн уудам.

yī běn wàn lì

to make big profits with a small capital

直译: a small investment brings a 10,000-fold profit

yī bù dēng tiān

to advance to a high position easily; to achieve instant success

yī fǎ tōng wàn fǎ tōng

grasp this one thing and you'll grasp everything; sort this one thing out and you'll sort out all the rest

yī fǎ tōng bǎi fǎ tōng

synonym of 一法通，萬法通 /一法通，万法通 (yī fǎ tōng, wàn fǎ tōng)

yī wù xiáng yī wù

there is always one thing to conquer another; everything has its vanquisher

yī shēng hé qiú

What can (I) pursue in this life? What else can (I) seek in life?

出处: From the name of a 1989 Cantonese song (“Yat sang ho kau”). The name follows the SOV word order (when the object is an interrogative pronoun) of Classical Chinese.

yī wǎng dǎ jìn

to round up the herd with one throw; roundup, wholesale arrest

直译: to catch all in one dragnet

出处: Japanese and Korean sources attribute the source to 《宋史·卷三一四·范純仁傳》, although the Hanyu Da Cidian gives an earlier quotation from 《東軒筆錄》卷四. Presumably originally an Early Mandarin colloquialism.

yī dù zǐ huǒ

to be furious, to be extremely angry

直译: a stomach full of fire

yī luò qiān zhàng

to suffer a devastating decline; to decline drastically

直译: to drop a thousand zhang in one fall

yī yán táng

authoritarian decision making (in which one person decides the matter arbitrarily); no bargaining; fixed price

yī yán nán jìn

to be hard to explain in a few words; there is a lot to say; it's a long story

yī yǔ pò dì

to hit the mark with a single comment

yī yǔ dào pò

to lay bare the truth with one penetrating remark; to hit the nail on the head

yī wù zài wù

to make one error after another; to keep on making mistakes; to make things worse by repeated delays

yī bài rú shuǐ

to be completely defeated

yī zǒu liǎo zhī

to quit; to walk away from a situation irresponsibly

yī tōng bǎi tōng

short for 一法通，百法通 (yī fǎ tōng, bǎi fǎ tōng)

yī zhēn jiàn xuè

💡 Тойруу яриагүй, асуудлын голыг нэг л үгээр шууд онох.

直译: to see blood with one (prick of the) needle

yī qián bù zhí

not worth a penny; utterly worthless; mere trash

yī miàn zhī jiāo

a casual relationship; acquaintance

yī miàn zhī cí

the statement of only one of the parties

yī yǐn ér jìn

💡 Аягатай юмаа зогсолтгүй, нэг л амьсгаагаар ууж хоослох.

yī bǎo yǎn fú

to feast one's eyes on something

qī yuè liú huǒ

the summer heat recedes during the seventh lunar month, and the cold season becomes imminent; scorching heat during July

出处: From the Classic of Poetry, poem 154 (《詩經·豳風·七月》): : In antiquity, Chinese astronomers saw the westerly motion of Antares, the Great Fire Star (大火), as a sign of autumn's arrival. Whether this idiom should be interpreted as referring to the current heat or the imminent cooling is a matter of constant dispute.

qī sǐ bā huó

almost dead; half dead; on the verge of death

wàn zhōng wú yī

one in a million; extremely rare

直译: not even one in ten thousand

wàn zhòng yī xīn

💡 Олон түмэн нэг зорилгын төлөө нэг сэтгэлээр эвтэй нэгдэх.

wàn xiàng gēng xīn

everything has been completely renovated

wàn lǐ wú yún

the sky is clear and cloudless

sān gēng bàn yè

in the middle of the night; late at night

sān shēng yǒu xìng

very lucky

sān cān bù jì

to be too poor to have three meals