三個和尚沒水吃
sān​ge​hé​shang​méi​shuǐ​chī

too many cooks spoil the broth

  • created sense approved 三个和尚没水吃/三個和尚沒水吃 · sān​ge​hé​shang​méi​shuǐ​chī · too many cooks spoil the broth — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    三个和尚没水吃 / 三個和尚沒水吃

    sān​ge​hé​shang​méi​shuǐ​chī

    too many cooks spoil the broth

    Literally "three monks have no water to drink"; an idiom meaning that when too many people are responsible for a task, nobody actually does it.

    sān​gè​hé​shang​méi​shuǐ​chī

    三个 (literal) → 三个/三個 · sān​ge · three 和尚 (literal) → 和尚 · hé​shang · Buddhist monk 没 (literal) → 没/沒 · méi · not have 水 (literal) → 水 · shuǐ · water 吃 (literal) → 吃 · chī · to eat

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