旧的不去,新的不来 (舊的不去,新的不來)
jiù de bù qù , xīn de bù lái
Pinyin
Definition
旧的不去,新的不来 (舊的不去,新的不來)
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- lit. If the old doesn't go, the new will not come.
- You can't make progress by clinging to old notions.
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 (negative prefix)
- 2 not
- 3 no
- 1 to go
- 2 to go to (a place)
- 3 (of a time etc) last
- 4 just passed
- 5 to send
- 6 to remove
- 7 to get rid of
- 8 to reduce
- 9 to be apart from in space or time
- 10 to die (euphemism)
- 11 to play (a part)
- 12 (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth
- 13 (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker)
- 14 (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
- 1 of
- 2 ~'s (possessive particle)
- 3 (used after an attribute)
- 4 (used to form a nominal expression)
- 5 (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
- 1 to go up
- 1 to go down
- 2 to descend
- 3 to go on
- 4 to continue
- 5 (of a servant) to withdraw
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)