yī​mǎ​bù​kuà​liǎng'ān

one horse doesn't wear two saddles

  • created sense approved 一马不跨两鞍/一馬不跨兩鞍 · yī​mǎ​bù​kuà​liǎng'ān · one horse doesn't wear two saddles — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    一马不跨两鞍 / 一馬不跨兩鞍

    yī​mǎ​bù​kuà​liǎng'ān

    one horse doesn't wear two saddles

    one horse cannot bear two saddles; a metaphor used to describe a widow who remains faithful and chooses not to remarry

    一 (literal) → 一 · yī · one 马 (literal) → 马/馬 · mǎ · horse 不 (literal) → 不 · bù · not 跨 (literal) → 跨 · kuà · to straddle 两 (literal) → 两/兩 · liǎng · two 鞍 (literal) → 鞍 · ān · saddle

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

    created sense