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Home / Idiom / 铁树开花

lit. the iron tree blooms (idiom) · a highly improbable or extremely rare occurrence

铁树开花
tiě shù kāi huā
t+iě·3rd tonesh+ù·4th tonek+āi·1st toneh+uā·1st tone
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Synonyms
only met with once every hundred years (drought, flood etc)百年不遇bǎi nián bù yùlit. to fish a needle from the sea · to find a needle in a haystack (idiom)大海捞针dà hǎi lāo zhēnsparse · rare稀少xī shǎoan extremely rare chance · occur only once in a thousand years - very rare千载一时qiān zǎi yī shí
Antonyms
can be seen everywhere · (of something) meet the eye everywhere触目皆是chù mù jiē shìeasy · with no difficulty轻而易举qīng ér yì jǔ
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