瓜无滚圆,人无十全 (瓜無滾圓,人無十全)
guā wú gǔn yuán , rén wú shí quán
Pinyin
Definition
瓜无滚圆,人无十全 (瓜無滾圓,人無十全)
-
- no gourd is perfectly round, just as no man is perfect (proverb)
Character Decomposition
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
一五一十
- 1 lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail
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)