翻云覆雨

fān yún fù yǔ

Rare

Definitions

1. to produce clouds with one turn of the hand and rain with another (idiom); fig. to shift one's ground
2. tricky and inconstant
3. to make love

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Child Words of 翻云覆雨

(classical) to say

to turn over

rain

(literary) to rain

to cover