掘室求鼠
jué​shì​qiú​shǔ

to dig through a house to catch a rat

  • created reference approved 掘室求鼠 → 因小失大 (synonym) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    掘室求鼠 jué​shì​qiú​shǔ

    因小失大 yīn​xiǎo​shī​dà

    synonym

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 掘室求鼠 · jué​shì​qiú​shǔ · to dig through a house to catch a rat — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    掘室求鼠

    jué​shì​qiú​shǔ

    to dig through a house to catch a rat

    to dig through the walls of a house to find a rat; a metaphor for suffering a large loss in pursuit of a small gain or losing more than one gains

    掘 (literal) → 掘 · jué · to dig 室 (literal) → 室 · shì · room 求 (literal) → 求 · qiú · to seek 鼠 (literal) → 鼠 · shǔ · rat

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

    created sense