好整以暇
hào zhěng yǐ xiá
Pinyin
Definition
好整以暇
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- to be calm and unruffled in the midst of chaos or at a busy time (idiom)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 can
- 2 may
- 3 possible
- 4 able to
- 5 not bad
- 6 pretty good
- 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 old variant of 以[yǐ]
- 1 the reason why
- 1 that level or higher
- 2 that amount or more
- 3 the above-mentioned
- 4 (used to indicate that one has completed one's remarks) That is all.
Idioms (20)
一则以喜,一则以忧
- 1 happy on the one hand, but worried on the other (idiom)
一言以蔽之
- 1 one word says it all (idiom, from Analects); to cut a long story short
- 2 in a nutshell
不以人废言
- 1 not to reject a word because of the speaker (idiom, from Analects); to judge on the merits of the case rather than preference between advisers
不以为然
- 1 not to accept as correct (idiom); to object
- 2 to disapprove
- 3 to take exception to
不以规矩,不能成方圆
- 1 without rules, nothing can be done (idiom, from Mencius); one must follow some rules