短中抽長 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 短中抽长 duǎnzhōngchōucháng ㄉㄨㄢˇ ㄓㄨㄥ ㄔㄡ ㄔㄤˊ to make the best of a bad job to make the best use of limited resources (idiom) Character by character 短(duǎn)short 中(zhōng)middle 抽(chōu)draw out 長(cháng)long A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0