逃之夭夭

táo zhī yāo yāo

Meaning

to escape without trace (idiom); to make one's getaway (from the scene of a crime); to show a clean pair of heels

Learn in the app → Write in stroke order

Characters

逃táoto abscond, to dodge, to escape, to flee辶兆之zhīmarks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to丶夭yāoyoung, energetic; to die young丿大

Examples

他一嗅到风声不对，就逃之夭夭了。

tā yī xiù dào fēng shēng bù duì， jiù táo zhī yāo yāo le。

Sensing danger, he ran away.