一物降一物
Traditional form:
一物降一物
Pinyin (reading):
yīwùxiángyīwù
Definitions:
- lit. one object bests another object
- every item has a weakness (idiom)
- there is a rock to every scissor, a scissor to every paper, and a paper to every rock
Characters:
- 一 - one; a, an; alone
- 物 - thing, substance, matter; creature
- 降 - to descend, to fall; to drop, to lower
- 一 - one; a, an; alone
- 物 - thing, substance, matter; creature
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