瓜熟蒂落
guā​shú​dì​luò

when conditions are ripe, success follows naturally

瓜熟蒂落 guā​shú​dì​luò
when conditions are ripe, success follows naturally
Literally "when the melon is ripe, it falls from the stem"; an idiom describing how a problem will be solved or a project will succeed effortlessly once the right conditions or the proper time has arrived.

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0.090 per million appears in 0% of films
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0.197 per million

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