cǐ​shì​tǐ​dà

serious matter

  • created sense approved 此事体大/此事體大 · cǐ​shì​tǐ​dà · serious matter — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    此事体大 / 此事體大

    cǐ​shì​tǐ​dà

    serious matter

    (idiom) This is no small thing; to have a serious matter at hand that involves many people or has a wide impact. Sometimes used as an excuse to delay or avoid solving a problem immediately.

    此事 (literal) → 此事 · cǐ​shì · this matter 体 (literal) → 体/體 · tǐ · form 大 (literal) → 大 · dà · big

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

    created sense