贪小失大 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 貪小失大 tānxiǎoshīdà ㄊㄢ ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄕ ㄉㄚˋ penny wise and pound foolish (idiom) Character by character 贪(tān)have a voracious desire for 小(xiǎo)small 失(shī)lose 大(dà)big A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0