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More is better than less

Time: 2022-01-30 23:11:08 Author: ChinaWiki.net

More is better than less

The less things, the better. The same as "more is better than less".

Idioms and allusions

Source: Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 of a dream of Red Mansions: "what you said is the same. It's better to save one thing than to do more." Example: Chapter Nine of Li Baojia's officialdom in the Qing Dynasty: "he was most afraid of negotiating with foreigners in his life, so he suddenly had the idea to send a telegram to Tao ziyao to stop running the machine and ask for money back."

Discrimination of words

Usage: used as object, attributive, clause; not wanting to be in charge

More is better than less


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