Read Edit View history 甘井先竭 gānjǐngxiānjié the sweet well is exhausted first Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 甘井先竭 gānjǐngxiānjié the sweet well is exhausted first (idiom) a sweet-water well will be the first to dry up; used as a metaphor for how people of great talent are often overworked or burdened until they decline or burn out early Frequency Written text 0.003 per million Cross-References Same as 甘泉必竭 gānquánbìjiéSee 直木先伐 zhímùxiānfá Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
甘井先竭 gānjǐngxiānjié the sweet well is exhausted first (idiom) a sweet-water well will be the first to dry up; used as a metaphor for how people of great talent are often overworked or burdened until they decline or burn out early Frequency Written text 0.003 per million Cross-References Same as 甘泉必竭 gānquánbìjiéSee 直木先伐 zhímùxiānfá Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)