鬥而鑄錐
dòu'ér​zhù​zhuī

to start late

  • created sense approved 斗而铸锥/鬥而鑄錐 · dòu'ér​zhù​zhuī · to start late — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    斗而铸锥 / 鬥而鑄錐

    dòu'ér​zhù​zhuī

    to start late

    to start preparing only when the fight begins; to be too late to take action

    斗 (literal) → 斗/鬥 · dòu · to fight 而 (literal) → 而 · ér · [adverbial linker] 铸 (literal) → 铸/鑄 · zhù · to cast 锥 (literal) → 锥/錐 · zhuī · awl

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

    created sense