小洞不补大洞吃苦 (小洞不補大洞吃苦)
xiǎo dòng bù bǔ dà dòng chī kǔ
Pinyin
Definition
小洞不补大洞吃苦 (小洞不補大洞吃苦)
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- A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole (idiom); a stitch in time saves nine
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 (negative prefix)
- 2 not
- 3 no
- 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 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 everyone
- 2 influential family
- 3 great expert
- 1 small
- 2 tiny
- 3 few
- 4 young
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
一问三不知
- 1 lit. to reply "don't know" whatever the question (idiom)
- 2 fig. absolutely no idea of what's going on
- 3 complete ignorance
一尘不染
- 1 untainted by even a speck of dust (idiom); selfless and incorruptible
- 2 spotless
一字不提
- 1 to not mention a single word (about sth) (idiom)
一山不容二虎
- 1 lit. the mountain can't have two tigers (idiom)
- 2 fig. this town ain't big enough for the two of us
- 3 (of two rivals) to be fiercely competitive