零敲碎打 — Chinese idiom
零敲碎打
líng qiāo suì dǎ
Meaning
- to do things in bits and pieces ; piecemeal work
Character by character
- 零língzero; fragment, fraction
- 敲qiāoto hammer, to pound, to strike
- 碎suìto break, to smash; broken, busted
- 打dǎto attack, to beat, to hit, to strike
Idioms sharing a character
- 七零八落 qī líng bā luò
- 化整为零 huà zhěng wéi líng
- 四海飘零 sì hǎi piāo líng
- 感激涕零 gǎn jī tì líng
- 琴剑飘零 qín jiàn piāo líng
- 零打碎敲 líng dǎ suì qiāo
- 敲诈勒索 qiāo zhà lè suǒ
- 敲钉钻脚 qiāo dīng zuān jiǎo
- 旁敲侧击 páng qiāo cè jī
- 盎盂相敲 àng yú xiāng qiāo
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