浅尝辄止
qiǎn​cháng​zhé​zhǐ

to scratch the surface

  • created sense approved 浅尝辄止/淺嘗輒止 · qiǎn​cháng​zhé​zhǐ · to scratch the surface — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    浅尝辄止 / 淺嘗輒止

    qiǎn​cháng​zhé​zhǐ

    to scratch the surface

    to stop after taking just a sip; to gain only a superficial knowledge of something or give up after a brief attempt rather than studying it deeply

    浅尝 (literal) → 浅尝/淺嘗 · qiǎn​cháng · to taste or dabble 辄 (literal) → 辄/輒 · zhé · immediately 止 (literal) → 止 · zhǐ · to stop

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

    created sense