Read Edit View history 拆东补西 chāidōngbǔxī to rob Peter to pay Paul Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 拆东补西 拆東補西 chāidōngbǔxī to rob Peter to pay Paul (idiom) to pull down the east wall to repair the west, meaning to use a temporary makeshift solution to a problem that creates a new hole elsewhere; a temporary expedient Frequency Written text 0.013 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
拆东补西 拆東補西 chāidōngbǔxī to rob Peter to pay Paul (idiom) to pull down the east wall to repair the west, meaning to use a temporary makeshift solution to a problem that creates a new hole elsewhere; a temporary expedient Frequency Written text 0.013 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)