颗粒无收 (顆粒無收)
kē lì wú shōu
Pinyin
Definition
颗粒无收 (顆粒無收)
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- not a single grain was reaped (as in a bad harvest year)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to receive
- 2 to accept
- 3 to collect
- 4 to put away
- 5 to restrain
- 6 to stop
- 7 in care of (used on address line after name)
- 1 to receive
- 1 to put in order
- 2 to tidy up
- 3 to pack
- 4 to repair
- 5 (coll.) to sort sb out
- 6 to fix sb
- 1 variant: 收获 shōu huò
- 1 to hoard
- 2 to collect
- 3 collection
- 4 to bookmark (Internet)
Idioms (17)
一粒老鼠屎坏了一锅粥
- 1 lit. a piece of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of congee (idiom)
- 2 fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
兼收并蓄
- 1 incorporating diverse things (idiom)
- 2 eclectic
- 3 all-embracing
名利双收
- 1 both fame and fortune (idiom)
- 2 both virtue and reward
坐收渔利
- 1 benefit from others' dispute (idiom)
失之东隅,收之桑榆
- 1 to lose at sunrise but gain at sunset (idiom)
- 2 to compensate later for one's earlier loss
- 3 what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts