小洞不補大洞吃苦 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 小洞不补大洞吃苦 xiǎodòngbùbǔdàdòngchīkǔ ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄉㄨㄥˋ ㄅㄨˋ ㄅㄨˇ ㄉㄚˋ ㄉㄨㄥˋ ㄔ ㄎㄨˇ A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole (idiom) a stitch in time saves nine Character by character 小(xiǎo)small 洞(dòng)cave 不(bù)no 補(bǔ)repair 大(dà)big 洞(dòng)cave 吃(chī)eat 苦(kǔ)bitter A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0