好汉不吃眼前亏
Traditional form:
好漢不吃眼前虧
Pinyin (reading):
hǎohànbùchīyǎnqiánkuī
Definitions:
- a wise man knows better than to fight when the odds are against him (idiom)
Characters:
- 好 - good, excellent, fine; proper, suitable; well
- 汉 - Chinese people; Chinese language
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 吃 - to eat; to drink; to suffer, to endure, to bear
- 眼 - eyelet, hole, opening
- 前 - in front, forward; former, preceding
- 亏 - to lose, to fail; loss, damages; deficient
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