徒工
tú gōng
Pinyin
Definition
徒工
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- apprentice
- trainee worker
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
亡命之徒
- 1 runaway (idiom); desperate criminal
- 2 fugitive
偷工减料
- 1 to skimp on the job and stint on materials (idiom)
- 2 jerry-building
- 3 sloppy work
名师出高徒
- 1 A famous teacher trains a fine student (idiom). A cultured man will have a deep influence on his successors.
家徒四壁
- 1 lit. with only four bare walls for a home (idiom)
- 2 fig. very poor
- 3 wretched
工欲善其事,必先利其器
- 1 To do a good job, an artisan needs the best tools (idiom). Good tools are prerequisite to the successful execution of a job