搜肠刮肚
Traditional form:
搜腸刮肚
Pinyin (reading):
sōuchángguādù
Definitions:
- to search one's guts and belly (idiom); to racks one's brains for a solution
Characters:
- 搜 - to seek, to search, to investigate
- 肠 - intestines; emotions; sausage
- 刮 - to shave; to scrape; to blow
- 肚 - belly; abdomen, bowels
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