The pinyin of smashing is zá, and the word combinations include smashing the pot to sell iron, smashing, and smashing the rice bowl.
1. Selling iron at the expense of others.
Explanation: Smash the pot and sell scrap metal. It means being extremely bored and leaving no way out. It is also a metaphor for taking out everything you have.
Source: Chapter 11 of Sun Li's "Urban Romance": "Now is not the time when steel was made in 1958. With an order, thousands of troops will sell iron to follow you."
Grammar: Sell the pot and sell the iron in a linked form; used as predicate and object; has a derogatory connotation.
2. Smash.
(1) Use a hard tool to break the complete thing into pieces.
(2) It is a metaphor for overthrowing the old society and the old system.
3. Smash your job.
A metaphor for unemployment.
For example: In the old society, he would get up early and work hard for his boss in the dark, just because he was afraid that he would not satisfy his boss and lose his job.
The definition of smashing:
(1) A heavy object falls on an object, or is hit with a heavy object.
Then he smashed Baoyu's bowl of tea into pieces and the tea flowed. ——"A Dream of Red Mansions"
(2) Another example: the sky collapses and hits everyone; smashing to death (smashing something into the ground without moving. It is a metaphor for setting things down and not allowing any changes); smashing ginger Grinding garlic (dialect. Metaphor of talking about things and delaying time). Such as: pound the foundation firmly; smash garlic.
(3) Accusation, scolding.
Yesterday he was hurling words at me in front of the big concubine, saying that I indulged you and wanted him to please you. ——"Jin Ping Mei Ci Hua"
(4) He, close.
Wife Zhang watched from the sidelines, nodding her head and mouthing. ——"The Biography of Heroes of Sons and Daughters"
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