马工枚速 — Chinese idiom
马工枚速
Mǎ gōng Méi sù
Traditional: 馬工枚速
Meaning
- Sima Xiangru is meticulous and Mei Gao is fast
- to each his good points
Character by character
- 马Mǎhorse; surname
- 工gōnglabor, work; laborer, worker
- 枚Méithe stalk of a shrub, the trunk of a tree
- 速sùprompt, quick, speedy
Idioms sharing a character
- 一马平川 yī mǎ píng chuān
- 一马当先 yī mǎ dāng xiān
- 中箭落马 zhòng jiàn luò mǎ
- 五马分尸 wǔ mǎ fēn shī
- 人仰马翻 rén yǎng mǎ fān
- 人喊马嘶 rén hǎn mǎ sī
- 人困马乏 rén kùn mǎ fá
- 兵强马壮 bīng qiáng mǎ zhuàng
- 兵荒马乱 bīng huāng mǎ luàn
- 北叟失马 běi sǒu shī mǎ
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