Read Edit View history 僧多粥少 sēngduōzhōushǎo not enough to go around Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 僧多粥少 sēngduōzhōushǎo not enough to go around literally 'many monks and little gruel'; describes a situation where there are too many people and not enough resources, jobs, or supplies to satisfy everyone Frequency Movie subtitles 0.060 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.382 per million Cross-References Synonym 人浮于事 rénfúyúshìVariant of 粥少僧多 zhōushǎosēngduō Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
僧多粥少 sēngduōzhōushǎo not enough to go around literally 'many monks and little gruel'; describes a situation where there are too many people and not enough resources, jobs, or supplies to satisfy everyone Frequency Movie subtitles 0.060 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.382 per million Cross-References Synonym 人浮于事 rénfúyúshìVariant of 粥少僧多 zhōushǎosēngduō Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)