mó​dāo​bù​wù​kǎn​chái​gōng

preparation

磨刀不误砍柴工 (磨刀不誤砍柴工) mó​dāo​bù​wù​kǎn​chái​gōng
preparation
Time spent preparing for a task is not wasted and will lead to better results; sharpening the axe won't make the wood-splitting take longer.

Frequency

Written text
0.097 per million

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Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)