Definition
铁桶 literally means 'metal bucket or drum'. It's also widely used metaphorically to describe an extremely tight and impenetrable defense or encirclement — the image is of a bucket so solid nothing can get in or out. The figurative sense appears in the fixed phrase 铁桶般的防守 ('an iron-bucket-like defense').
n.
metal pailbucketor drum(figurative) impenetrable defense or encirclement
Examples
- 铁桶。Tā bǎ shuǐ dào jìn yí gè tiě tǒng lǐ.He poured the water into a metal bucket.
- 铁桶，。Dírén de bāowéi xiàng tiě tǒng yíyàng, wǒmen hěn nán tūwéi.The enemy's encirclement was like an iron bucket — it was very hard for us to break out.
- ，铁桶。Zhè zuò chéngshì de fángshǒu gùruòjīntāng, jiǎnzhí shì tiě tǒng yìbān.This city's defense is as solid as gold — it's just like an iron bucket.
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