小不忍则乱大谋

xiǎo bù rěn zé luàn dà móu

Definitions

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

Child Words of 小不忍则乱大谋

• 不 不 bù: no; not so
• 乱 乱 luàn: in confusion or disorder
• 则 则 zé: (literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then
• 大 大 dà: big; large; great
• 大 大 dài: see 大夫[dài fu]
• 小 小 xiǎo: small
• 忍 忍 rěn: to bear
• 不忍 不忍 bù rěn: cannot bear to
• 谋 谋 móu: to plan