一口吃不成胖子
Traditional form:
一口吃不成胖子
Pinyin (reading):
yīkǒuchībùchéngpàngzi
Definitions:
- lit. you cannot get fat with only one mouthful (proverb)
- fig. any significant achievement requires time, effort and persistence
Characters:
- 一 - one; a, an; alone
- 口 - mouth; entrance, gate, opening
- 吃 - to eat; to drink; to suffer, to endure, to bear
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 成 - to accomplish; to become; to complete, to finish; to succeed
- 胖 - fat, plump, obese; a fat person
- 子 - son, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thing
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