pò​cháo​zhī​xià'ān​yǒu​wán​luǎn

no egg stays whole under a broken nest

  1. adjectiveverb
    broken
    broken; damaged; torn; worn out; (informal) lousy; poor quality; poor; inferior
  2. nest
    a nest, hive, or lair for birds, insects, or other animals; also a home or dwelling
  3. under; less than
    (bound form) under; below; beneath; less than; not more than
  4. [how/where]
    (literary) used to ask how, why, or where; equivalent to 怎么 zěn​me or 哪里 nǎ​li
  5. there is
    there is; there are; to exist; to occur or happen
  6. unbroken egg
    an unbroken egg; (metaphorical) person or thing that remains intact or unscathed, usually in the context of the idiom 覆巢之下,无完卵 fù​cháo​zhī​xià​wú​wán​luǎn