倒打一耙

dào dǎ yī pá

Definitions

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. to make bogus accusations (against one's victim)

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Child Words of 倒打一耙

one

to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally

to invert; to place upside down or frontside back

dozen (loanword)

to beat

a hoe

a rake