wú suǒ cuò shǒu

synonym of 無所措手足 /无所措手足 (wú suǒ cuò shǒu zú, “to be at a loss as to what to do”)

直译: don't know how to move one's hands

wú suǒ cuò shǒu zú

to be at a loss as to what to do

直译: don't know how to move hand or foot

出处: From the Analects

wú gēn zhī mù wú yuán zhī shuǐ

synonym of 無源之水，無本之木 /无源之水，无本之木 (wúyuán zhī shuǐ, wúběn zhī mù, “baseless”)

直译: a tree without roots, water without a source

wú yuán zhī shuǐ

baseless

直译: water without a source

wú dú yǒu ǒu

to coincidentally have a parallel; to happen to have a similar counterpart

wú jí ér zhōng

to die without illness; to end while unfinished

wú qióng wú jìn

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wú yào kě jiù

utterly hopeless; unable to be saved (helped); beyond the point of help

直译: no medicine can save; unable to be saved by any medicine

wú bǔ yú shì

synonym of 於事無補 /于事无补 (yúshìwúbǔ, “unhelpful or useless to the situation”)

wú jì kě shī

at a loss as to what to do; at one's wits' end; at the end of one's tether

wú zú guà chǐ

not worth mentioning

wú kào wú yī

synonym of 無依無靠 /无依无靠 (wúyīwúkào, “to have no one to depend on; to be helpless”)

rì bó xī shān

to be close to death; to be declining and near its end

直译: sun approaches the western mountains

出处: From Li Mi's 陳情表

rì xíng yī shàn

to do a good deed every day; to do a good turn daily

jiù qíng fù rán

to be rekindled

shí yí shì yì

times have changed; things have changed and are now different than they used to be

míng zhé bǎo shēn

to protect or defend oneself with wisdom and sound judgement; to protect oneself above all other considerations; to place one's own interests at the foremost

出处: From the Classic of Poetry, poem 260 (《詩經·大雅·烝民》)

míng chá àn fǎng

to observe publicly and investigate privately; to conduct a thorough investigation

míng chá àn fǎng

synonym of 明察暗訪 /明察暗访 (míngchá'ànfǎng)

míng mù zhāng dǎn

brazenly; flagrantly

míng lǐ àn lǐ

openly and covertly; implicitly and explicitly

yì rú fǎn zhǎng

easy as ABC; simple as kiss your hand

直译: as easy as turning one's hand over

出处: From Mencius: : The four-character form first attested in c. 154 BCE, in Mei Cheng (or Mei Sheng)'s letter to Liu Bi, dissuading him from revolt

shì fēi qū zhí

right and wrong; proper and improper; truth and falsehood

zhì yǒng shuāng quán

both wise and courageous; both brave and sagacious

àn wú tiān rì

gross lack of justice

直译: dark without daylight

àn tōng kuǎn qū

to secretly contact or communicate

qū xué ē shì

to change one's opinion, theory or philosophy opportunistically

出处: Derived from the Shiji, book 121

qū zhé lí qí

convoluted and eccentric; complicated and bizarre

qū xiàn jiù guó

to achieve an objective through indirect means

qǔ zhōng rén sàn

a bustling scene becomes deserted and cheerless

直译: the song ends and people part

céng jǐ hé shí

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tì tiān xíng dào

to enforce justice for the heavens

出处: From the Yuan dynasty's zaju play 梁山泊李逵負荊 (Li Kui from Mount Liang's Marsh Offers an Apology) by 康進之 (Kang Jinzhi)

yǒu tóu wú wěi

to have a beginning but not an end; to fail to carry things through; to leave something unfinished; to have begun but not well-ended; to not have spoken or done something to the point

直译: there is a head, but no tail

yǒu tóu yǒu wěi

to have a beginning and an end; to carry things through; to see something to completion

直译: there is a head, there is a tail