一颗老鼠屎坏了一锅汤
yī​kē​lǎo​shǔ​shǐ​huài​le​yī​guō​tāng

one bad apple spoils the whole bunch

  • created reference approved 一颗老鼠屎坏了一锅汤/一顆老鼠屎壞了一鍋湯 → 一粒老鼠屎坏了一锅粥/一粒老鼠屎壞了一鍋粥 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    一颗老鼠屎坏了一锅汤 / 一顆老鼠屎壞了一鍋湯 yī​kē​lǎo​shǔ​shǐ​huài​le​yī​guō​tāng

    一粒老鼠屎坏了一锅粥 / 一粒老鼠屎壞了一鍋粥 yī​lì​lǎo​shǔ​shǐ​huài​le​yī​guō​zhōu

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    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 一颗老鼠屎坏了一锅汤/一顆老鼠屎壞了一鍋湯 · yī​kē​lǎo​shǔ​shǐ​huài​le​yī​guō​tāng · one bad apple spoils the whole bunch — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    一颗老鼠屎坏了一锅汤 / 一顆老鼠屎壞了一鍋湯

    yī​kē​lǎo​shǔ​shǐ​huài​le​yī​guō​tāng

    one bad apple spoils the whole bunch

    One bad person or thing ruins everything else, like a single piece of rat droppings spoiling an entire pot of soup.

    一 (literal) → 一 · yī · one 颗 (literal) → 颗/顆 · kē · [classifier] 老鼠屎 (literal) → 老鼠屎 · lǎo​shǔ​shǐ · rat droppings 坏了 (literal) → 坏了/壞了 · huài​le · to be finished 一 (literal) → 一 · yī · one 锅 (literal) → 锅/鍋 · guō · pot 汤 (literal) → 汤/湯 · tāng · soup

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

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