小作怡情，大作伤身

xiǎo zuò yí qíng , dà zuò shāng shēn

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1. a little bit of it does one good, but carried to excess it's harmful (idiom)

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Child Words of 小作怡情，大作伤身

• 作 作 zuō: worker
• 作 作 zuò: to do; to engage in
• 伤 伤 shāng: to injure
• 大 大 dà: big; large; great
• 大 大 dài: see 大夫[dài fu]
• 小 小 xiǎo: small
• 情 情 qíng: feeling
• 伤身 伤身 shāng shēn: to be harmful to one's health
• 大作 大作 dà zuò: your work (book, musical composition etc) (honorific)
• 怡 怡 yí: harmony
• 身 身 shēn: body