因小失大 Save Sign in to save words yīnxiǎoshīdà ㄧㄣ ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄕ ㄉㄚˋ to save a little only to lose a lot (idiom) Character by character 因(yīn)cause 小(xiǎo)small 失(shī)lose 大(dà)big A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0