created sense approved 拆东补西/拆東補西 · chāidōngbǔxī · to rob Peter to pay Paul — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
拆东补西 / 拆東補西
chāidōngbǔxī
to rob Peter to pay Paul
(idiom) to pull down the east wall to repair the west, meaning to use a temporary makeshift solution to a problem that creates a new hole elsewhere; a temporary expedient
拆 (literal) → 拆 · chāi · to demolish 东 (literal) → 东/東 · dōng · [haphazard] 补 (literal) → 补/補 · bǔ · to mend 西 (literal) → 西 · xī · here and there
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition