留有余地
Traditional form:
留有餘地
Pinyin (reading):
liúyǒuyúdì
Definitions:
- to leave some leeway
- to allow for the unpredictable
Characters:
- 留 - to stay, to remain; to preserve, to keep; to leave a message;
- 有 - to have, to own, to possess; to exist
- 余 - surplus, remainder; surname
- 地 - earth, ground, soil; land, region; structural particle used before a verb
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