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三个和尚没水吃
sān​ge​hé​shang​méi​shuǐ​chī

too many cooks spoil the broth

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
三个和尚没水吃 三個和尚沒水吃 sān​ge​hé​shang​méi​shuǐ​chī
too many cooks spoil the broth
Literally "three monks have no water to drink"; an idiom meaning that when too many people are responsible for a task, nobody actually does it.
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