diū​zú​bǎo​jū

sacrifice something minor to save something major

丢卒保车 丟卒保車 diū​zú​bǎo​jū
sacrifice something minor to save something major
Literally meaning "to sacrifice a pawn to save a chariot" in Chinese chess, this describes giving up something less important to protect what is essential. In this specific idiom, the character is read as "jū" rather than "chē".

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0.052 per million

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Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)