雙管齊下
简 双管齐下 · 繁 雙管齊下Meanings
- lit. to paint holding two brushes (idiom); fig. to work on two tasks at the same time
- to attack one problem from two angles at the same time
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1–3–2–4 · shuang1 guan3 qi2 xia4
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soeng1 gun2 cai4 haa6
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- (idiomatic) to use a two-pronged approach; to work along both lines simultaneously
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