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宁缺勿滥
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宁缺毋滥 (寧缺毋濫) nìng​quē​wú​làn
quality over quantity expression
better to have nothing than a substandard choice; would prefer to go without than accept a shoddy option

Frequency

Written text
0.586 per million

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Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)