大才小用
dà cái xiǎo yòng
Pinyin
Definition
大才小用
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- lit. making little use of great talent
- to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 big
- 2 huge
- 3 large
- 4 major
- 5 great
- 6 wide
- 7 deep
- 8 older (than)
- 9 oldest
- 10 eldest
- 11 greatly
- 12 very much
- 13 (dialect) father
- 14 father's elder or younger brother
- 1 very auspicious
- 2 extremely lucky
- 1 everyone
- 2 influential family
- 3 great expert
- 1 prize
- 2 award
- 1 liar's dice (dice game)
Idioms (20)
一心二用
- 1 to do two things at once (idiom)
- 2 to multitask
- 3 to divide one's attention
上有老下有小
- 1 lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom)
- 2 fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children
- 3 sandwich generation
不打不成才
- 1 spare the rod and spoil the child (idiom)
不拘小节
- 1 to not bother about trifles (idiom)
不识大体
- 1 to fail to see the larger issue (idiom)
- 2 to fail to grasp the big picture