得寸进尺
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- 1. lit. win an inch, want a foot (idiom); fig. not satisfied with small gains
- 2. give him an inch, and he'll want a mile
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Child Words of 得寸进尺
a unit of length
one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation, 工尺譜|工尺谱[gōng chě pǔ]
a Chinese foot
to obtain
structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc
to have to
to go forward