打灯笼拾粪,找屎打燈籠拾糞,找屎打燈籠拾糞,找屎

collecting dung with a lantern: looking for dung

Saying俗语俗語

Two-part saying歇后语歇後語 · Rarely used now

May offend: vulgar language

Meaning: A rude scolding of someone who recklessly courts death or disaster.
Wordplay: 屎 (shǐ) is written for 死 (sǐ), so 找屎 'look for dung' sounds like 找死 'asking to die'.

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Simplified: 打灯笼拾粪,找屎
Traditional (Taiwan): 打燈籠拾糞,找屎
Pinyin: dǎdēnglóng shí fèn,zhǎo shǐ
Bopomofo: ㄉㄚˇ ㄉㄥㄌㄨㄥˊ ㄕˊ ㄈㄣˋ,ㄓㄠˇ ㄕˇ

Written with HSK 7-9 vocabulary, at CEFR level C1.

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