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Trad. 背鍋
- (slang) (neologism derived from 背黑鍋|背黑锅[bei1 hei1 guo1]) to carry the can; to be a scapegoat
Trad. 開鍋
- to season a wok
- to take the lid off a pot
- (of the contents of a pot) to start to boil
- (fig.) to become rowdy
Trad. 乾鍋
- dry pot, a type of dish in which ingredients are wok-fried, then served hot in a clay pot or on a metal pan
Trad. 分鍋
- (dialect) to set up separate households
- (sports etc) to analyze the reasons for a defeat
Trad. 紙火鍋
- paper hot pot (hot pot using a single-use pot made of Japanese washi paper with a special coating to prevent burning and leaking, used for cooking at the dining table)
Trad. 鴛鴦鍋
- "mandarin ducks" pot (hot pot with a divider, containing spicy soup on one side, mild soup on the other)
Trad. 反應鍋
- (chemical engineering) reaction vessel; reaction tank
Trad. 臭臭鍋
- hot pot containing stinky tofu and other ingredients (Taiwanese dish)
Trad. 連鍋端
- to take even the cooking pots (idiom)
- to clean out
- to wipe out
Trad. 大鍋飯
- meal cooked in a large pot
- communal meal
- (fig.) system that rewards everyone equally regardless of merit
Trad. 涮鍋子
- hot pot
- a dish where thinly sliced meat and vegetables are boiled briefly in a broth and then served with dipping sauces
Trad. 一品鍋
- dish containing a variety of meats and vegetables arranged in a broth in a clay pot
- chafing dish
Trad. 吃大鍋飯
- lit. to eat from the common pot (idiom)
- fig. to be rewarded the same, regardless of performance
Trad. 砸鍋賣鐵
- to be willing to sacrifice everything one has (idiom)
Trad. 肉爛在鍋裡
- lit. the meat falls apart as it stews, but it all stays in the pot (idiom)
- fig. some of us may lose or gain, but in any case the benefits don't go to outsiders
Trad. 熱鍋上的螞蟻
- (like) a cat on a hot tin roof
- anxious
- agitated
Trad. 一馬勺壞一鍋
- one ladle (of sth bad) spoils the (whole) pot (idiom)
- one bad apple spoils the barrel
Trad. 上刀山，下油鍋
- lit. to climb mountains of swords and enter cauldrons of boiling oil (idiom)
- fig. to go through trials and tribulations
Trad. 打破砂鍋問到底
- to go to the bottom of things (idiom)
Trad. 不到火候不揭鍋
- don't act until the time is ripe (idiom)
Trad. 吃著碗裡，看著鍋裡
- lit. eyeing what's in the pot as one eats from one's bowl (idiom)
- not content with what one already has
- (of men, typically) to have the wandering eye
Trad. 吃著碗裡，瞧著鍋裡
- see 吃著碗裡，看著鍋裡|吃着碗里，看着锅里[chi1 zhe5 wan3 li3 , kan4 zhe5 guo1 li3]
Trad. 一粒老鼠屎壞了一鍋粥
- lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of congee (idiom)
- fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
Trad. 一顆老鼠屎壞了一鍋湯
- lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom)
- fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
Trad. 一顆老鼠屎壞了一鍋粥
- see 一粒老鼠屎壞了一鍋粥|一粒老鼠屎坏了一锅粥[yi1 li4 lao3 shu3 shi3 huai4 le5 yi1 guo1 zhou1]