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Helping the turtle and losing the turtle

Time: 2022-01-31 08:56:57 Author: ChinaWiki.net

Helping the turtle and losing the turtle

The Chinese idiom, Yu á NBI ē sh ī Gu ī, means that the gain is not worth the loss. From Huainanzi shuoshan Xun.

The origin of Idioms

"Huainanzi shuoshan Xun" says: "it's better to kill the army and ask for the fox, help the two turtles and fail the tortoise, break the right arm and fight for a hair, break moxie and fight for the cone knife

Idiom usage

It refers to the loss of great things from small things.

Helping the turtle and losing the turtle


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