积重难返
Traditional form:
積重難返
Pinyin (reading):
jīzhòngnánfǎn
Definitions:
- ingrained habits are hard to overcome (idiom); bad old practices die hard
Characters:
- 积 - to store up, to amass, to accumulate
- 重 - heavy, weighty; to double, to repeat
- 难 - hard, difficult, arduous; unable
- 返 - to restore, to return, to revert to
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