敲打鑼鼓

1. • lit. to beat a gong fig. to irritate sb
2. • a provocation

Character by character

• 敲(qiāo)hit
• 打(dǎ)a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings
• 鑼(luó)gong
• 鼓(gǔ)drum