肥水不流外人田 Save Sign in to save words féishuǐbùliúwàiréntián ㄈㄟˊ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄅㄨˋ ㄌㄧㄡˊ ㄨㄞˋ ㄖㄣˊ ㄊㄧㄢˊ lit. don't let one's own fertile water flow into others' field fig. keep the goodies within the family (proverb) Character by character 肥(féi)fat 水(shuǐ)surname Shui 不(bù)no 流(liú)flow 外(wài)outside 人(rén)person 田(tián)surname Tian A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0