心急吃不了热豆腐
xīn​jí​chī​bu​liǎo​rè​dòu​fu

haste makes waste

  • created sense approved 心急吃不了热豆腐/心急吃不了熱豆腐 · xīn​jí​chī​bu​liǎo​rè​dòu​fu · haste makes waste — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    心急吃不了热豆腐 / 心急吃不了熱豆腐

    xīn​jí​chī​bu​liǎo​rè​dòu​fu

    haste makes waste

    (idiom) impatient people cannot eat hot tofu; used to advise that one must be patient because rushing will ruin the result

    心急 (literal) → 心急 · xīn​jí · impatient 吃 (literal) → 吃 · chī · to eat 不了 (literal) → 不了 · bù​liǎo · unable to 热 (literal) → 热/熱 · rè · hot 豆腐 (literal) → 豆腐 · dòu​fu · tofu

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

    created sense