粗制滥造 — Chinese idiom
粗制滥造
cū zhì làn zào
Traditional: 粗製濫造
Meaning
- to churn out large quantities without regard for quality ; rough and slipshod work
Character by character
- 粗cūrough, think; coarse, rude
- 制zhìsystem; to establish; to manufacture; to overpower
- 滥lànto flood, to overflow; excessive
- 造zàoto build, to construct, to invent, to manufacture
Idioms sharing a character
- 粗枝大叶 cū zhī dà yè
- 粗鲁不文 cū lǔ bù wén
- 以夷制夷 yǐ yí zhì yí
- 先发制人 xiān fā zhì rén
- 因地制宜 yīn dì zhì yí
- 因时制宜 yīn shí zhì yí
- 如法炮制 rú fǎ páo zhì
- 宁缺毋滥 nìng quē wú làn
- 泛滥成灾 fàn làn chéng zāi
- 滥杀无辜 làn shā wú gū
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