货比三家不吃亏 (貨比三家不吃虧)
huò bǐ sān jiā bù chī kuī
Pinyin

Definition

货比三家不吃亏 (貨比三家不吃虧)
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huò bǐ sān jiā bù chī kuī
  1. shop around first and you won't get ripped off (idiom)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

三
Sān
  1. 1 surname San
不
bù
  1. 1 (negative prefix)
  2. 2 not
  3. 3 no
家
jiā
  1. 1 see also: 家伙 jiā huo
吃
chī
  1. 1 to eat
  2. 2 to consume
  3. 3 to eat at (a cafeteria etc)
  4. 4 to eradicate
  5. 5 to destroy
  6. 6 to absorb
  7. 7 to suffer
  8. 8 to stammer (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [jí])
回家
huí jiā
  1. 1 to return home

Idioms (20)

一不做，二不休
yī bù zuò , èr bù xiū
  1. 1 don't do it, or don't rest (idiom); either give up, or go through to the end
  2. 2 Since we started, we must carry it through whatever happens.
  3. 3 in for a penny, in for a pound
一倡三叹
yī chàng sān tàn
  1. 1 (of literature, music) deeply moving (idiom)
一哭二闹三上吊
yī kū èr nào sān shàng diào
  1. 1 to make a terrible scene (idiom)
  2. 2 to throw a tantrum
一问三不知
yī wèn sān bù zhī
  1. 1 lit. to reply "don't know" whatever the question (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. absolutely no idea of what's going on
  3. 3 complete ignorance
一尘不染
yī chén bù rǎn
  1. 1 untainted by even a speck of dust (idiom); selfless and incorruptible
  2. 2 spotless

Sample Sentences

当然有，你听我说，幼儿园的师资和环境都很重要，马虎不得，我当初是看了好几间才决定的，货比三家不吃亏。
dāngrán yǒu ，nǐ tīng wǒ shuō ，yòuéryuán de shīzī hé huánjìng dōu hěn zhòngyào ，mǎhu bùdé ，wǒ dāngchū shì kàn le hǎojǐ jiān cái decision de ，huò bǐ sānjiā bù chī kuī 。
Of course she has and listen up, the teacher and the environment is very important in kindergarten. You really can't afford to mess around. At the start I went to see quite a few before deciding. It never hurts to shop around.
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