物尽其用 (物盡其用)
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Pinyin
Definition
物尽其用 (物盡其用)
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- to use sth to the full
- to make the best use of everything
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to use
- 2 to employ
- 3 to apply
- 4 to make use of
- 1 his
- 2 her
- 3 its
- 4 their
- 5 that
- 6 such
- 7 it (refers to sth preceding it)
- 1 other
- 2 (sth or sb) else
- 3 the rest
- 1 actually
- 2 in fact
- 3 really
- 1 to use
- 2 to employ
- 3 to have to
- 4 to eat or drink
- 5 expense or outlay
- 6 usefulness
- 7 hence
- 8 therefore
Idioms (20)
一心二用
- 1 to do two things at once (idiom)
- 2 to multitask
- 3 to divide one's attention
一物降一物
- 1 lit. one object bests another object
- 2 every item has a weakness (idiom)
- 3 there is a rock to every scissor, a scissor to every paper, and a paper to every rock
三缄其口
- 1 (idiom) reluctant to speak about it
- 2 tight-lipped
上下其手
- 1 to raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint
- 2 fig. conspiring to defraud
不胜其苦
- 1 unable to bear the pain (idiom)