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Examples:in the twinkling of an eye —three-legged Golden Crow that lives in the sun (in northeast Asian and Chinese mythology)—International court of justice in the Hague—flash in the pan [idiom.]—parkour, French sport invented by David Belle in 1980s, with the aim of efficiently traversing obstacles in the environment—in the dead of night [idiom.]—bury one's head in the sand [idiom.]—lit. sth hits one in the face—hole in the body of a musical instrument, covered with a membrane which produces a buzzing tone—lit. dip one's finger in the tripod (idiom); fig. get one's finger in the pie—round yellow dirt mount (in the Northwest of China)—ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old)—Great Sword Society, an offshoot of the White Lotus in the late Qing dynasty, involved in anti-Western activity at the time of the Boxer rebellion—luteal phase (period in the menstrual cycle when an embryo can implant in the womb)—classical Chinese name for planet Venus in the east before dawn—Oval office (in the White House)—woman working in the service industry—signal the musicians (in Chinese opera, by prolonging a spoken word before attacking a song)—Liang Shuming (1893-1988), modern philosopher and teacher in the neo-Confucian tradition—Huang Xin, character in The Water Margin—silver in the form of fibers or branches—in the clutches of the enemy—lit. the cycle comes back the start (idiom); to move in circles—great streets and small alleys (idiom); everywhere in the city—Pilate (Pontius Pilate in the Biblical passion story)—(of a girl) in the prime of youth—prevent a disaster before the event (idiom); to nip sth. in the bud—classifier for long, narrow, flexible objects such as fish, dogs, pants; for roads and rivers; for human lives; in the expression: one heart, meaning working together for a common goal—classifier for people working in the same domain—become bogged down in the details [idiom.]—location on wrist over the radial artery where pulse is taken in TCM—Hunan army, irregular force formed in 1850s fight the Taiping heavenly kingdom rebellion—League of Nations (1920-1946), based in Geneva, precursor of the UN—one of the characters used in kwukyel (phonetic "san"), an ancient Korean writing system—Chien-Ming Wang (1980-), Taiwanese starting pitcher for the Washington Nationals in Major League Baseball—condition or dye the hair using hair treatment product in conjunction with a hair steamer—crystal lattice (the regular 3-dimensional pattern formed by atoms in a crystal)— |