挑肥揀瘦 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 挑肥拣瘦 tiāoféijiǎnshòu ㄊㄧㄠ ㄈㄟˊ ㄐㄧㄢˇ ㄕㄡˋ to cherry-pick to pick the best parts for oneself to be choosy idiom Character by character 挑(tiāo)carry on a shoulder pole 肥(féi)fat 揀(jiǎn)choose 瘦(shòu)thin A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0