戳馬蜂窩
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to stir up trouble by provoking dangerous or touchy people
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Idiom惯用语 · Widely known
- Literally
- poke a hornets' nest
- Meaning
- A variant of 捅马蜂窝: to stir up trouble by provoking dangerous or touchy people. Same as English 'poke a hornets' nest'.
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