小洞不补大洞吃苦
Traditional form:
小洞不補大洞吃苦
Pinyin (reading):
xiǎodòngbùbǔdàdòngchīkǔ
Definitions:
- A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole (idiom); a stitch in time saves nine
Characters:
- 小 - small, tiny, insignificant
- 洞 - cave, grotto, hole, ravine
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 补 - to fix, to mend, to patch, to restore
- 大 - big, great, vast, high, deep
- 洞 - cave, grotto, hole, ravine
- 吃 - to eat; to drink; to suffer, to endure, to bear
- 苦 - bitter; hardship, suffering
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