when hungry, you can't pick what you eat (idiom); beggars can't be choosers; When matters are urgent, don't spend time choosing alternatives.
trad. 飢不擇食
Also written 飢不擇食【jī bù zé shí】
Characters in this word
4饥
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(bound form) hungry
- Pinyin
- jī
- Traditional
- 飢
- Strokes
- 5
不
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no; not so, (bound form) not; un-
- Pinyin
- bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 9 of 2500
择
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to select, to choose, to pick over, to pick out, to differentiate, to eliminate, also pr. [zhai2]
- Pinyin
- zé
- Traditional
- 擇
- Strokes
- 8
食
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to eat, food, animal feed, eclipse
- Pinyin
- shí
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 9712 of 2500