泛滥成灾 — Chinese idiom
泛滥成灾
fàn làn chéng zāi
Traditional: 泛濫成災
Meaning
- lit. to flood
- fig. rampant
- in plague proportions
Character by character
- 泛fànto drift, to float; broad, vast; careless, reckles
- 滥lànto flood, to overflow; excessive
- 成chéngto accomplish; to become; to complete, to finish;
- 灾zāidisaster, catastrophe, calamity
Idioms sharing a character
- 学海泛舟 xué hǎi fàn zhōu
- 浮家泛宅 fú jiā fàn zhái
- 宁缺毋滥 nìng quē wú làn
- 滥杀无辜 làn shā wú gū
- 滥竽充数 làn yú chōng shù
- 粗制滥造 cū zhì làn zào
- 一事无成 yī shì wú chéng
- 一成不变 yī chéng bù biàn
- 一举成名 yī jǔ chéng míng
- 一语成谶 yī yǔ chéng chèn
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