萝卜快了不洗泥
Traditional form:
蘿蔔快了不洗泥
Pinyin (reading):
luóbokuàilebùxǐní
Definitions:
- when radishes are selling fast, one doesn't take the time to wash the soil off them (idiom)
- fig. when business is booming, merchants tend to offer goods of inferior quality
Characters:
- 萝 - carrot, radish, turnip
- 卜 - divination, fortune-telling; prophecy
- 快 - speedy, rapid, quick; soon
- 了 - clear; to finish; particle of completed action
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 洗 - to bathe, to rinse, to wash
- 泥 - mud, earth, clay; plaster, paste
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