泥工
ní gōng
Pinyin
Definition
泥工
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- mason
- masonry work
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 staff
- 2 personnel
- 3 employee
- 1 artificial
- 2 manpower
- 3 manual work
- 1 to work with one's hands
- 2 manual work
- 3 workmanship
Idioms (16)
偷工减料
- 1 to skimp on the job and stint on materials (idiom)
- 2 jerry-building
- 3 sloppy work
出淤泥而不染
- 1 lit. to grow out of the mud unsullied (idiom)
- 2 fig. to be principled and incorruptible
判若云泥
- 1 as different as heaven and earth (idiom)
- 2 worlds apart
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
泥古不化
- 1 conservative and unable to adapt (idiom)