拔出萝卜带出泥

拔出蘿蔔帶出泥
báchūluóbodàichūní
idiom

Meanings

  1. 1 pulling out a radish brings up the dirt
  2. 2 investigating one crime uncovers others
  3. 3 one problem drags others along with it

Examples

Chá zhè qǐ fǔbài àn zhēnshì báchūluóbodàichūní, yòu qiān chū hǎojǐ gè guānyuán.
Investigating this corruption case was like pulling up a radish and dragging dirt with it — several more officials were implicated.
Xiū yīgè wèntí, yòu fāxiàn sān gè, zhēnshì báchūluóbodàichūní.
Fix one problem, find three more — classic radish-and-dirt.

Tips

usage
Very common in news about anti-corruption investigations — one arrest triggers a chain. Also used for debugging and any cascading discovery.

Stroke Order

chū
luó
dài