因噎废食 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 因噎廢食 yīnyēfèishí ㄧㄣ ㄧㄝ ㄈㄟˋ ㄕˊ lit. not eating for fear of choking (idiom) fig. to cut off one's nose to spite one's face to avoid sth essential because of a slight risk Character by character 因(yīn)cause 噎(yē)choke 废(fèi)abolish 食(shí)eat A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0