瓜菜代
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to substitute inferior goods
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Idiom惯用语 · Rarely used now
- Literally
- melon and vegetables instead
- Meaning
- Originally a famine measure of adding melons and vegetables to the staple grain; figuratively, lowering standards or substituting inferior goods.
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