喻

surname Yu

to describe sth as / an analogy / a simile / a metaphor / an allegory

surname Yu

variant of 腧[shu4]

yes (used by Emperor or ruler) / OK / to accede / to assent

mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

(idiom) impervious to reason; unreasonable

to be impervious to reason (idiom) / unreasonable

understood by everyone (idiom); well known / a household name

it goes without saying; it is self-evident

it goes without saying / it is self-evident

another name for 古今小說|古今小说[Gu3 jin1 Xiao3 shuo1], Stories Old and New by Feng Menglong 馮夢龍|冯梦龙[Feng2 Meng4 long2]

to use sth as a metaphor

to borrow the past as a model for the present

synecdoche

metonymy

inexpressible (idiom)