東挪西借
dōng​nuó​xī​jiè

to borrow all around

  • created sense approved 东挪西借/東挪西借 · dōng​nuó​xī​jiè · to borrow all around — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    东挪西借 / 東挪西借

    dōng​nuó​xī​jiè

    to borrow all around

    to borrow money or items from many different people or places in order to scrape together what is needed together

    东 (literal) → 东/東 · dōng · [haphazard] 挪 (literal) → 挪 · nuó · to transfer 西 (literal) → 西 · xī · here and there 借 (literal) → 借 · jiè · to borrow

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

    created sense