又要马儿好,又要马儿不吃草 (又要馬兒好,又要馬兒不吃草)
yòu yào mǎ r5 hǎo , yòu yào mǎ r5 bù chī cǎo
Pinyin
Definition
又要马儿好,又要马儿不吃草 (又要馬兒好,又要馬兒不吃草)
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- see 又要馬兒跑,又要馬兒不吃草|又要马儿跑,又要马儿不吃草[yòu yào mǎ r5 pǎo , yòu yào mǎ r5 bù chī cǎo]
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 (negative prefix)
- 2 not
- 3 no
- 1 (once) again
- 2 also
- 3 both... and...
- 4 and yet
- 5 (used for emphasis) anyway
- 1 to eat
- 2 to consume
- 3 to eat at (a cafeteria etc)
- 4 to eradicate
- 5 to destroy
- 6 to absorb
- 7 to suffer
- 8 to stammer (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [jí])
- 1 good
- 2 well
- 3 proper
- 4 good to
- 5 easy to
- 6 very
- 7 so
- 8 (suffix indicating completion or readiness)
- 9 (of two people) close
- 10 on intimate terms
- 11 (after a personal pronoun) hello
- 1 to demand
- 2 to request
- 3 to coerce
Idioms (20)
一不做,二不休
- 1 don't do it, or don't rest (idiom); either give up, or go through to the end
- 2 Since we started, we must carry it through whatever happens.
- 3 in for a penny, in for a pound
一人得道,鸡犬升天
- 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
- 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
- 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
- 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一个天南,一个地北
- 1 to live miles apart (idiom)
一传十,十传百
- 1 news pass quickly from mouth to mouth (idiom)
- 2 an infectious disease spreads quickly (old meaning)
一则以喜,一则以忧
- 1 happy on the one hand, but worried on the other (idiom)