- lit. to put everything out including the tray
- to reveal everything
- to make a clean breast of it all
Characters
- 和 (咊): old variant of 和[he2]
- 盘 (盤): plate; dish; tray; board; hard drive (computing); to build; to coil; to check; to examine; to transfer (property); to make over; classifier for food: dish, helping; to coil; classifier for coils of wire; classifier for games of chess
- 托 (托): to hold up in one's hand; to support with one's palm; sth serving as a support: a prop, a rest (e.g. arm rest); (bound form) a shill; to ask; to beg; to entrust (variant of 託|托[tuo1]); torr (unit of pressure)
- 出 (出): to go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield; to go beyond; to exceed; (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result); classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
Resources
- Wiktionary: 和盘托出
- MDBG: 和盘托出
- Examples with 和盘托出 on Tatoeba
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