(lit.) the boot hits the floor (idiom); (fig.) a much-anticipated, impactful development has finally occurred (an allusion to a joke from the 1950s in which a young man would take off a boot and throw it onto the floor, waking the old man sleeping downstairs who could then not get back to sleep until he had heard the second boot hit the floor)
Characters in this word
4靴
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boots
- Pinyin
- xuē
- Strokes
- 13
- Frequency
- 23786 of 2500
子
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son, child, seed, egg, small thing, 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat, viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4], ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north), subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
- Pinyin
- zǐ
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 2170 of 2500
落
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to leave out, to be missing, to leave behind or forget to bring, to lag or fall behind
- Pinyin
- là
- Strokes
- 12
- Frequency
- 4185 of 2500
地
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-ly, structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
- Pinyin
- de
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 271 of 2500