砸鍋賣鐵
zá​guō​mài​tiě

to sacrifice one's all

  • created sense approved 砸锅卖铁/砸鍋賣鐵 · zá​guō​mài​tiě · to sacrifice one's all — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    砸锅卖铁 / 砸鍋賣鐵

    zá​guō​mài​tiě

    to sacrifice one's all

    to be willing to sacrifice or use up everything one has in order to achieve a goal; literally "smash the cooking pot and sell the iron"

    砸锅 (literal) → 砸锅/砸鍋 · zá​guō · to break a pot 卖 (literal) → 卖/賣 · mài · to sell 铁 (literal) → 铁/鐵 · tiě · iron

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

    created sense