因噎废食
Traditional form:
因噎廢食
Pinyin (reading):
yīnyēfèishí
Definitions:
- lit. not eating for fear of choking (idiom); fig. to cut off one's nose to spite one's face
- to avoid sth essential because of a slight risk
Characters:
- 因 - cause, reason; by; because
- 噎 - to choke; to hiccup
- 废 - to terminate; to discard; to abgrogate
- 食 - food; to eat
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