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翻雲覆雨

翻云覆雨

fānyúnfùyǔ

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

(figurative) to be fickle; to shift one's grounds constantly
(figurative) to make love
(figurative) to play politics; to be tricky
to be fickle; to shift one's grounds constantly
to make love
to play politics; to be tricky

比喻反覆無常。宋．黃機〈木蘭花慢．問功名何處〉詞：「世事翻雲覆雨，滿懷何止離憂。」元．喬孟符《揚州夢．第四折》：「你不合打鳳牢籠，翻雲覆雨，陷人坑阱。」也作「覆雨翻雲」。
形容男女間床笫之事。

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Entry Composition

to turn over
to flip over
to overturn
to rummage through
to translate
to decode
to double
to climb over or into
to cross

variant of 翻 fān

classifier: 朵

variant of 復 fù
to reply to a letter

to cover
to overflow
to overturn
to capsize

classifiers: 陣, 場

Related entries

要做爱不要战争。

Make love, not war.

Source: Tatoeba

(coll.) to make love

(coll.) to make love

Love loves love.

Source: Tatoeba

sexual intercourse
to make love