宽打窄用 — Chinese idiom
宽打窄用
kuān dǎ zhǎi yòng
Traditional: 寬打窄用
Meaning
- to give oneself leeway
- to allow room for error
Character by character
- 宽kuānbroad, spacious, vast, wide
- 打dǎto attack, to beat, to hit, to strike
- 窄zhǎinarrow, tight; narrow-minded
- 用yòngto use, to employ, to apply; use
Idioms sharing a character
- 外宽内忌 wài kuān nèi jì
- 宽以待人 kuān yǐ dài rén
- 宽大为怀 kuān dà wéi huái
- 宽宏大量 kuān hóng dà liàng
- 心宽体胖 xīn kuān tǐ pán
- 一炮打响 yī pào dǎ xiǎng
- 一网打尽 yī wǎng dǎ jìn
- 倒打一耙 dào dǎ yī pá
- 包打天下 bāo dǎ tiān xià
- 乔装打扮 qiáo zhuāng dǎ bàn
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