顾此失彼
Traditional form:
顧此失彼
Pinyin (reading):
gùcǐshībǐ
Definitions:
- lit. to attend to one thing and lose sight of another (idiom)
- fig. to be unable to manage two or more things at once
- cannot pay attention to one thing without neglecting the other
Characters:
- 顾 - to look back; to look at; to look after
- 此 - this, these; in this case, then
- 失 - to lose; to make a mistake, to neglect
- 彼 - that, those, the other
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