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小不忍则乱大谋

xiǎo bù rěn zé luàn dà móu

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Definitions

1. (idiom) great plans can be ruined by just a touch of impatience

Child Words of 小不忍则乱大谋

see 大夫[dài fu]

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

no; not so

in confusion or disorder

cannot bear to

to bear

big; large; great

to plan

small