niú​jì​tóng​zào

treating the great and the common alike

  • created sense approved 牛骥同皂/牛驥同皂 · niú​jì​tóng​zào · treating the great and the common alike — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    牛骥同皂 / 牛驥同皂

    niú​jì​tóng​zào

    treating the great and the common alike

    literally "a cow and a famous steed at the same trough"; refers to treating the wise and the foolish or the talented and the mediocre without any distinction

    牛 (literal) → 牛 · niú · ox 骥 (literal) → 骥/驥 · jì · thoroughbred horse 同 (literal) → 同 · tóng · together 皂 (literal) → 皂 · zào · honey locust

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

    created sense