顾此失彼 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 顧此失彼 gùcǐshībǐ ㄍㄨˋ ㄘˇ ㄕ ㄅㄧˇ lit. to attend to one thing and lose sight of another (idiom) fig. to be unable to manage two or more things at once cannot pay attention to one thing without neglecting the other Character by character 顾(gù)surname Gu 此(cǐ)this 失(shī)lose 彼(bǐ)that A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0