老和尚撞钟
lǎo​hé​shang​zhuàng​zhōng

just getting through each day

  • created reference approved 老和尚撞钟/老和尚撞鐘 → 得过且过/得過且過 (synonym) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    老和尚撞钟 / 老和尚撞鐘 lǎo​hé​shang​zhuàng​zhōng

    得过且过 / 得過且過 dé​guò​qiě​guò

    synonym

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 老和尚撞钟/老和尚撞鐘 · lǎo​hé​shang​zhuàng​zhōng · just getting through each day — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    老和尚撞钟 / 老和尚撞鐘

    lǎo​hé​shang​zhuàng​zhōng

    just getting through each day

    ([[歇后语|歇後語|xie1 hou4 yu3]]) an old monk rings the bell—taking things one day at a time, completed by [[过一日是一日|過一日是一日|guo4 yi1 ri4 shi4 yi1 ri4]]; used to describe living or working aimlessly without long-term plans or just getting by

    lǎo​hé​shàng​zhuàng​zhōng

    老 (literal) → 老 · lǎo · old 和尚 (literal) → 和尚 · hé​shang · Buddhist monk 撞 (literal) → 撞 · zhuàng · to strike 钟 (literal) → 钟/鐘 · zhōng · bell

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

    created sense