不俭则匮

bù jiǎn zé kuì

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Definitions

  1. 1. wastage makes one destitute (idiom)

Child Words of 不俭则匮

不
bù

no; not so

则
zé

(literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then

俭
jiǎn

frugal

匮
kuì

to lack