日頭打西出來

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Chinese

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sun; sunlight
beat; strike; break
beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen
 
west to go from inside to outside; to come out
trad. (日頭打西出來) 日頭 西 出來
simp. (日头打西出来) 日头 西 出来
Literally: “The sun rising in the west”.

Pronunciation

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Idiom

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日頭打西出來

  1. (of an event) impossible or unlikely
  2. (by extension, of an event) surprising or astonishing