百不失一
bǎi​bù​shī​yī

completely reliable

  • created sense approved 百不失一 · bǎi​bù​shī​yī · completely reliable — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    百不失一

    bǎi​bù​shī​yī

    completely reliable

    (idiom) there is not a single miss in a hundred tries; describes someone who is extremely careful and leaves nothing to chance

    百 (literal) → 百 · bǎi · hundred 不 (literal) → 不 · bù · not 失 (literal) → 失 · shī · to miss 一 (literal) → 一 · yī · one

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

    created sense