缓不济急
Traditional form:
緩不濟急
Pinyin (reading):
huǎnbùjìjí
Definitions:
- lit. slow no aid to urgent (idiom); slow measures will not address a critical situation
- too slow to meet a pressing need
Characters:
- 缓 - slow, gradual; to postpone, to delay
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 济 - to aid, to help, to relieve; to ferry across
- 急 - anxious, worried; hasty, quick; pressing, urgent
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