when radishes are selling fast, one doesn't take the time to wash the soil off them (idiom); fig. when business is booming, merchants tend to offer goods of inferior quality
trad. 蘿蔔快了不洗泥
Also written 蘿蔔快了不洗泥【luó bo kuài le bù xǐ ní】
Characters in this word
7萝
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radish
- Pinyin
- luó
- Traditional
- 蘿
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 20780 of 2500
卜
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surname Bu
- Pinyin
- Bǔ
- Strokes
- 2
- Frequency
- 29353 of 2500
快
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rapid, quick, speed, rate, soon, almost, to make haste, clever, sharp (of knives or wits), forthright, plainspoken, gratified, pleased, pleasant
- Pinyin
- kuài
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 102 of 2500
了
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(completed action marker), (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now), (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
- Pinyin
- le
- Strokes
- 2
- Frequency
- 4 of 2500
不
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no; not so, (bound form) not; un-
- Pinyin
- bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 9 of 2500
洗
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to wash; to bathe, to develop (photographs), to shuffle (cards etc), to erase (a recording)
- Pinyin
- xǐ
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 1841 of 2500
泥
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mud, clay, paste, pulp
- Pinyin
- ní
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 9295 of 2500