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倒打一耙

dào dǎ yī pá

4-character word

What 倒打一耙 means

1. lit. to strike with a muckrake (idiom), cf Pigsy 猪八戒 in Journey to the West 西游记; fig. to counterattack
2. to make bogus accusations (against one's victim)

The characters in 倒打一耙

• 倒dǎoto fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow
• 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
• 一yīone; single; a (article)
• 耙bàa hoe; to harrow

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