陈谷子烂芝麻
Traditional form:
陳谷子爛芝麻
Pinyin (reading):
chéngǔzilànzhīma
Definitions:
- lit. stale grain, overcooked sesame (idiom); fig. the same boring old gossip
Characters:
- 陈 - to display, to exhibit; to plead; surname
- 谷 - valley, gorge, ravine
- 子 - son, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thing
- 烂 - overcooked, overripe; rotten, spoiled
- 芝 - sesame; a magical mushroom
- 麻 - hemp, flax, sesame; numb
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