乾打雷，不下雨 gān dǎ léi ， bù xià yǔ

DEFINITIONS

  1. all thunder but no rain (idiom)
  2. a lot of noise but no action

CHARACTERS

乾 gān dry; first hexagram; warming principle of the sun, penetrating and fertilizing, heavenly generative principle (male)
打 dǎ
HSK 1
strike, hit, beat; fight; attack
雷 léi
HSK 5
thunder
不 bù
HSK 1
no, not; un-; negative prefix
下 xià
HSK 1
under, underneath, below; down; inferior; bring down
雨 yǔ
HSK 1
rain; rainy; KangXi radical 173