防不胜防 — Chinese idiom
防不胜防
fáng bù shèng fáng
Traditional: 防不勝防
Meaning
- virtually impossible to prevent
Character by character
- 防fángto protect, to defend, to guard against
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 胜shèngvictory; to excel, to truimph
- 防fángto protect, to defend, to guard against
Idioms sharing a character
- 以防万一 yǐ fáng wàn yī
- 防微杜渐 fáng wēi dù jiàn
- 防患未然 fáng huàn wèi rán
- 防患未萌 fáng huàn wèi méng
- 一丁不识 yī dīng bù shí
- 一尘不染 yī chén bù rǎn
- 一字不差 yī zì bù chà
- 一字不提 yī zì bù tí
- 一成不变 yī chéng bù biàn
- 一文不值 yī wén bù zhí
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