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good for nothing

Time: 2022-01-30 20:52:31 Author: ChinaWiki.net

good for nothing

There is nothing useful in a hundred things. Pinyin B ǎ IW ú y ī y ò ng, a Chinese idiom, means that there is nothing useful in a hundred things. It's useless to describe. It comes from Huang Jingren's miscellaneous feelings in Qing Dynasty.

Idiom explanation

None of them is useful.

The origin of Idioms

In Huang Jingren's miscellaneous feelings of Qing Dynasty: "nine out of ten people can be white eyed, and they are all scholars."

Word usage

Subject predicate type; predicate; derogatory meaning [near synonym] is worthless [antonym] is valuable

good for nothing


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