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雷打不动

léi dǎ bù dòng

4-character word Traditional 雷打不動

What 雷打不动 means

1. not shaken by thunder (idiom); the arrangements are unalterable
2. to adhere rigidly to regulations
3. will go ahead whatever happens (of an arrangement or plan)

The characters in 雷打不动

• 雷léithunder; (bound form; military) mine, as in 地雷; (colloquial) to shock; to stun; to astound
• 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 动dòng(of sth) to move; to set in movement; to displace

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