| 纷至沓来 | fēn zhì tà lái | to come thick and fast (idiom) | |
| 杂沓 | zá tà | small craftsman (contemptuous); clatter (e.g. of footsteps); jumbled mass; press of bodies; tumult | |
| 拖沓 | tuō tà | dilatory; sluggish; muddled; roundabout | |
| 沓沓多言 | tà tà duō yán | talking very much (idiom) | |
| 拖拖沓沓 | tuō tuō tà tà | dragging one's feet |
| 1 | Keep a pad of paper near your bed. | |
| 2 | Creative pillow looks like a stack of folded US dollar banknotes. | |
| 3 | The other tackled more complicated material: my love life. | |
| 4 | Hitting her repeatedly with a wad of banknotes, he said: "Don't you want money? | |
| 5 | Scattered across the table were my textbooks, laptop, pencils and two stacks of index cards. |