马蹄刀瓢里切菜，滴水不漏馬蹄刀瓢里切菜，滴水不漏馬蹄刀瓢里切菜，滴水不漏

Cutting vegetables with a horseshoe knife in a gourd ladle: not a drop leaks

Saying俗语俗語

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

Meaning: Either someone so stingy they won't part with anything, or someone whose words and actions are watertight.

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Simplified: 马蹄刀瓢里切菜，滴水不漏
Traditional (Taiwan): 馬蹄刀瓢里切菜，滴水不漏
Pinyin: mǎtídāo piáo li qiē cài, dīshuǐbúlòu
Pinyin (Taiwan): mǎtídāo piáo lǐ qiē cài, dīshuǐbúlòu
Bopomofo: ㄇㄚˇ ㄊㄧˊ ㄉㄠㄆㄧㄠˊ ㄌㄧˇ ㄑㄧㄝㄘㄞˋ，ㄉㄧㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄅㄨˊ ㄌㄡˋ

Written with HSK 5 vocabulary, at CEFR level B2.

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