下油锅
Traditional (Taiwan):
下油鍋
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to suffer terrible hardship and torment
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Idiom惯用语 · Widely known
- Literally
- go into the oil cauldron
- Meaning
- To suffer terrible hardship and torment, from the folk belief that evildoers are fried in boiling oil in hell.
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