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截屏2026-06-05 下午8.09.22

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Chengyu

IDIOMS

Choice Chengyu: Fire Away

Literal and figurative phrases about fire

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

July 25, 2019

LANGUAGE

Choice Chengyu: Chess Talk

Chess-inspired idioms for strategizing and winning

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

July 17, 2019

IDIOMS

Choice Chengyu: Fast Phrases

Sayings that go by like a flash

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

July 10, 2019

LANGUAGE

Choice Chengyu: Heated Expressions

Idioms for the dog days of summer

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

July 3, 2019

IDIOMS

Idiomized: How to Talk Exams in 4 Characters

Phrases for success and failure in exams, past and present

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

June 26, 2019

IDIOMS

Choice Chengyu: Musical Phrasing

Sayings about music, good and bad

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

June 19, 2019

IDIOMS

Choice Chengyu: Speaking of Qu Yuan

Phrases by and about the official who inspired the Dragon Boat Festival

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

June 5, 2019

IDIOMS

Choice Chengyu: Red-Light References

Traditional metaphors and euphemisms for sex work

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

May 29, 2019

IDIOMS

Choice Chengyu: Treacherous Turns of Phrase

Phrases for betrayal, treason, and that one backstabbing friend

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

May 22, 2019

IDIOMS

Choice Chengyu: All in a Day’s Work

Idioms about working, workers, and the overworked

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

May 1, 2019

IDIOMS

Choice Chengyu: Thanks for all the idioms

Phrases for remembering and repaying debts of gratitude

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

April 24, 2019

IDIOMS

Choice Chengyu: Rain Speaking

Stormy sayings in celebration of spring

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

April 17, 2019

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