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鼎铛玉石

dǐng chēng yù shí

Definitions

  • •lit. to use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom); fig. a waste of precious material
  • •casting pearls before swine

Child Words of 鼎铛玉石

玉石
yù shí
石
shí
石
dàn
鼎
dǐng
铛
chēng
玉
yù
铛
dāng