一发不可收拾 Save Create a free account to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 一發不可收拾 yīfābùkěshōushi ㄧ ㄈㄚ ㄅㄨˋ ㄎㄜˇ ㄕㄡ ˙ㄕ once it gets started there's no stopping it Character by character 一(yī)one 发(fā)send out 不(bù)no 可(kě)can 收(shōu)receive 拾(shi) Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0