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  1. lit. you may go undetected during the new moon, but at full moon you'll be found out (idiom); fig. you can't put it off forever; sooner or later you'll have to deal with it

    trad. 躲得過初一,躲不過十五

Also written 躲得過初一,躲不過十五【duǒ de guò chū yī , duǒ bù guò shí wǔ】

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one, single, a (article), as soon as, entire; whole; all; throughout, "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1), also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

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