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倒打一耙

倒打一耙

Chinese

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upset; turn over; to tip; to pour; to go home; to the contrary; inverted; to fall; to collapse; to topple; to change; to fail; bankrupt

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beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen

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one; 1; single; a; (before verbs) as soon as, once; (before a noun) entire (family, etc.)

!a rake; harrow |- !simp. and trad.
(倒打一耙) | | | | |- !Literally: “to strike with a muck-rake”. |}

Idiom

倒打一耙

  1. to put the blame on one's victim, to make unfounded countercharges, to recriminate, to counter-attack
    • 倒打一耙要求赔偿 [MSC, trad. and simp.]
      dàodǎyīpá, yāoqiú péicháng. [Pinyin]
      He hit back with an unfair demand for compensation.