天上不会掉馅饼
Traditional form:
天上不會掉餡餅
Pinyin (reading):
tiānshàngbùhuìdiàoxiànbǐng
Definitions:
- there is no such thing as a free lunch (idiom)
Characters:
- 天 - sky, heaven; god, celestial
- 上 - above, on top, superior; to go up; to attend; previous
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 会 - to assemble, to meet; meeting; association, group
- 掉 - to drop, to fall, to remove
- 馅 - filling, stuffing; secret
- 饼 - rice-cake, pastry, biscuit
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