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 zhēng àn dòu

open and veiled strife

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

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