"Shaking one's head," "duplicity," and "baring one's teeth and claws" are four-character ABCD idioms.
In addition to the ABCD form, Chinese idioms also have the AABB form and the ABAC form. Chinese idioms have various forms. As mentioned above, there are four-character idioms, five-character idioms, six-character idioms, seven-character idioms, and eight-character idioms. etc. Among them, four-character idioms are the main form of Chinese idioms.
The following is a relevant introduction to the ABCD formula:
The ABCD formula consists of four different characters, for example:
Everything is renewed, rats scurry, chickens crow, dogs robbers, thousands of armies Thousands of horses, mending the situation after a lost sheep, a snake's shadow, standing out from a flock of chickens, playing the piano to an ox, like a fish in water, singing birds and fragrant flowers, working for a tiger, a donkey in Guizhou, the finishing touch, a tiger's back and a bear's back, waiting for a rabbit, a child with a crane's hair, a dog jumping over the wall, a mouse's eyesight, a blind man touching an elephant, superfluous, adding wings to a tiger, thousands of horses galloping, the wind is roaring, childhood sweethearts, flying horses, the stupid bird flies first, such as The ants are infested with mutton, the soldiers are fighting hard, and the chickens are dancing when they hear them.
Standing out from the flock of chickens, roosters crowing and dogs stealing, snipe and clams fighting, cannibalizing whales, clues, dragons and tigers fighting, dragon and horse spirit, dragons and phoenixes dancing, dragons and tigers leaping, dragons and tigers trotting, dragons and tigers den, dragons leaping and phoenixes crowing, traffic is busy, referring to deer as horses, rabbits die and foxes are sad, chickens and dogs are restless, and horses are distracted. , devouring, etc.
The above information refers to Baidu Encyclopedia - Idioms