挂一漏万 — Chinese idiom
挂一漏万
guà yī lòu wàn
Traditional: 掛一漏萬
Meaning
- to mention some but omit many others
- to leave out much more than one includes
Character by character
- 挂guàto suspend, to put up, to hang; suspense
- 一yīone; a, an; alone
- 漏lòuto leak, to drip; hour glass; funnel
- 万wànten thousand; innumerable
Idioms sharing a character
- 一丝不挂 yī sī bù guà
- 不足挂齿 bù zú guà chǐ
- 无牵无挂 wú qiān wú guà
- 牛角挂书 niú jiǎo guà shū
- 牵肠挂肚 qiān cháng guà dù
- 一丁不识 yī dīng bù shí
- 一丘之貉 yī qiū zhī hé
- 一之为甚 yī zhī wéi shèn
- 一干二净 yī gān èr jìng
- 一了百了 yī liǎo bǎi liǎo
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3). Retrieved 2026-10-22.