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- to avoid going home for the Chinese New Year (for any of various reasons: because one finds the festivities onerous in some way, or because it would be seen as inauspicious for one to attend, or, in former times, to avoid creditors, since it was the custom to have debts settled before New Year's Day, and once into the New Year, debtors got a reprieve)
Trad. 躲讓
- to step aside (for a passing vehicle)
- to get out of the way
- to make way for
Trad. 躲開
- to stay out of (hot water, trouble, awkward situation etc)
- to avoid (sb)
Trad. 躲風
- lit. to avoid the wind
- fig. to keep low to avoid a difficult situation
- to stay out of trouble
Trad. 躲躲閃閃
- to evade
- to dodge (out of the way)
Trad. 明槍好躲，暗箭難防
- lit. easy to dodge the spear in the open, hard to avoid a stab in the dark (idiom); it is hard to guard against secret conspiracies
Trad. 明槍易躲，暗箭難防
- lit. easy to dodge the spear in the open, hard to avoid a stab in the dark (idiom); it is hard to guard against secret conspiracies
Trad. 躲過初一，躲不過十五
- see 躲得過初一，躲不過十五|躲得过初一，躲不过十五[duo3 de5 guo4 chu1 yi1 , duo3 bu4 guo4 shi2 wu3]