| 捅马蜂窝 | tǒng mǎ fēng wō | to poke through a hornets' nest; to attack a difficult task resolutely | |
| 捅娄子 | tǒng lóu zi | to make a mess of sth | |
| 捅喽子 | tǒng lóu zi | variant of 捅娄子 | |
| 捅楼子 | tǒng lóu zi | variant of 捅娄子 | |
| 捅破 | tǒng pò | to pierce; to prod through |
| 1 | You go to the dentist and he pokes you. | |
| 2 | He poked a hole in a paper screen. | |
| 3 | Father poked the fire with a poker. | |
| 4 | Someone inside pokes him in the eye. | |
| 5 | The Japanese, seeing her power, decided to assassinate her - which they did, in 1895, by stabbing her multiple times. |