倒打一耙

dào dǎ yī pá

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Definitions

  1. 1. lit. to strike with a muckrake (idiom), cf Pigsy 豬八戒|猪八戒 in Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记; fig. to counterattack
  2. 2. to make bogus accusations (against one's victim)

Child Words of 倒打一耙

一
yī

one

倒
dǎo

to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally

倒
dào

to invert; to place upside down or frontside back

打
dá

dozen (loanword)

打
dǎ

to beat

耙
bà

a hoe

耙
pá

a rake