船到江心补漏迟 chuándàojiāngxīnbǔlòuchí too late to mend Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 船到江心补漏迟 船到江心補漏遲 chuándàojiāngxīnbǔlòuchí too late to mend (proverb) Literally "to start mending a leak only when the boat is in the middle of the river"; to delay taking action until it is too late to save a situation. Frequency Written text 0.004 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
船到江心补漏迟 船到江心補漏遲 chuándàojiāngxīnbǔlòuchí too late to mend (proverb) Literally "to start mending a leak only when the boat is in the middle of the river"; to delay taking action until it is too late to save a situation. Frequency Written text 0.004 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)