节外生枝
Traditional form:
節外生枝
Pinyin (reading):
jiéwàishēngzhī
Definitions:
- (idiom) new problems arise unexpectedly
Characters:
- 节 - festival; knot, joint; segment; to economize, to save
- 外 - out, outside, external; foreign; in addition
- 生 - life, lifetime; birth; growth
- 枝 - branches, limbs; to branch off
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