巧媳婦煮不得沒米粥
qiǎo​xí​fù​zhǔ​bù​dé​méi​mǐ​zhōu

even a clever housewife cannot cook rice porridge without rice

  • created sense approved 巧媳妇煮不得没米粥/巧媳婦煮不得沒米粥 · qiǎo​xí​fù​zhǔ​bù​dé​méi​mǐ​zhōu · even a clever housewife cannot cook rice porridge without rice — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    巧媳妇煮不得没米粥 / 巧媳婦煮不得沒米粥

    qiǎo​xí​fù​zhǔ​bù​dé​méi​mǐ​zhōu

    even a clever housewife cannot cook rice porridge without rice

    one cannot achieve anything without the necessary means or materials

    巧 (literal) → 巧 · qiǎo · skillful 媳妇 (literal) → 媳妇/媳婦 · xí​fu · wife 煮 (literal) → 煮 · zhǔ · to boil 不得 (bound) → 不得 · bu​de · [potential] 没 (literal) → 没/沒 · méi · not have 米粥 (literal) → 米粥 · mǐ​zhōu · congee

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

    created sense