- to overturn trunks and boxes
- to make a thorough search (idiom)
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- to make a thorough search (idiom)
This phrase is used to describe the action of searching everywhere meticulously or turning everything upside down, often in pursuit of something that is lost or difficult to find.
He turned everything upside down to find the lost keys.
tā她wèi le为了zhǎo dào找到nà ge那个wén jiàn文件,fān xiāng dǎo guì翻箱倒柜de地fān翻zhǎo找le了zhěng gè整个bàn gōng shì办公室。
She rummaged through the entire office to find that document.
Generated collocations (experimental)
fān xiāng dǎo guì翻箱倒柜to make a thorough searchfān xiāng dǎo guì翻箱倒柜zhǎo找dōng xī东西to overturn trunks and boxes to find somethingfān xiāng dǎo guì翻箱倒柜sōu chá搜查to make a thorough searchfān xiāng dǎo guì翻箱倒柜xún zhǎo寻找to search high and lowfān xiāng dǎo guì翻箱倒柜jiǎn chá检查to check thoroughlyfān xiāng dǎo guì翻箱倒柜sōu xún搜寻wù pǐn物品to scour for itemsfān xiāng dǎo guì翻箱倒柜zhǎo找zhèng jù证据to look through everything for evidencefān xiāng dǎo guì翻箱倒柜fān翻zhǎo找to rummage through trunks and boxes