龙口夺食
lóng​kǒu​duó​shí

to harvest hurriedly before rain

  • created sense approved 龙口夺食/龍口奪食 · lóng​kǒu​duó​shí · to harvest hurriedly before rain — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    龙口夺食 / 龍口奪食

    lóng​kǒu​duó​shí

    to harvest hurriedly before rain

    to rush to gather the crops before a rainstorm arrives; literally to snatch food from the mouth of a dragon

    龙 (literal) → 龙/龍 · lóng · dragon 口 (literal) → 口 · kǒu · mouth 夺 (literal) → 夺/奪 · duó · to seize 食 (literal) → 食 · shí · food

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

    created sense