拳头捣蒜,辣手拳頭搗蒜,辣手拳頭搗蒜,辣手

pounding garlic with a fist: hot hand

Saying俗语俗語

Two-part saying歇后语歇後語 · Rarely used now

Meaning: Describes a problem that is thorny and hard to handle.
Wordplay: 辣手 (làshǒu) literally means a hand stung by garlic's heat, and figuratively means tricky or hard to deal with.

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Simplified: 拳头捣蒜,辣手
Traditional (Taiwan): 拳頭搗蒜,辣手
Pinyin: quántou dǎosuàn,làshǒu
Bopomofo: ㄑㄩㄢˊ ˙ㄊㄡㄉㄠˇ ㄙㄨㄢˋ,ㄌㄚˋ ㄕㄡˇ

Written with HSK 7-9 vocabulary, at CEFR level C1.

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