打铁的火炉泼上水,白搭一火
打鐵的火爐潑上水,白搭一火
打鐵的火爐潑上水,白搭一火
water thrown on the blacksmith's furnace: a whole fire (partnership) wasted
Saying俗语俗語
Two-part saying歇后语歇後語 · Rarely used now
- Meaning
- Said when work was done in vain, or when people teamed up but achieved nothing. Mildly critical or rueful.
- Wordplay
- 火 (huǒ, fire/heat) sounds like 伙 (huǒ, a group): 搭一火 reads as a wasted firing, and as 搭伙, teaming up for nothing.
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- Simplified
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打铁的火炉泼上水,白搭一火
- Traditional (Taiwan)
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打鐵的火爐潑上水,白搭一火
- Pinyin
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dǎtiě de huǒlú pō shàng shuǐ,báidā yì huǒ
- Bopomofo
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ㄉㄚˇ ㄊㄧㄝˇ ˙ㄉㄜ ㄏㄨㄛˇ ㄌㄨˊ ㄆㄛ ㄕㄤˋ ㄕㄨㄟˇ,ㄅㄞˊ ㄉㄚ ㄧˋ ㄏㄨㄛˇ
Written with
HSK 6 vocabulary,
at CEFR level
B2.
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