刻足適履
kè​zú​shì​lǚ

to cut the feet to fit the shoes

  • created sense approved 刻足适履/刻足適履 · kè​zú​shì​lǚ · to cut the feet to fit the shoes — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    刻足适履 / 刻足適履

    kè​zú​shì​lǚ

    to cut the feet to fit the shoes

    to carve or cut the feet to fit into a pair of shoes; to use unreasonable or forced measures to solve a problem without regard for the actual situation

    刻 (literal) → 刻 · kè · to carve 足 (bound) → 足 · zú · foot 适 (literal) → 适/適 · shì · to fit 履 (bound) → 履 · lǚ · shoe

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

    created sense