忙中有失 — Chinese idiom
忙中有失
máng zhōng yǒu shī
Meaning
- rushed work leads to errors
Character by character
- 忙mángbusy, hurried, pressed for time
- 中zhōngcentral; center, middle; amidst; to hit (target),
- 有yǒuto have, to own, to possess; to exist
- 失shīto lose; to make a mistake, to neglect
Idioms sharing a character
- 不慌不忙 bù huāng bù máng
- 忙中有错 máng zhōng yǒu cuò
- 忙里偷闲 máng lǐ tōu xián
- 手忙脚乱 shǒu máng jiǎo luàn
- 一矢中的 yī shǐ zhòng dì
- 一语中的 yī yǔ zhòng dì
- 中箭落马 zhòng jiàn luò mǎ
- 中西合璧 Zhōng Xī hé bì
- 人中龙凤 rén zhōng lóng fèng
- 切中时弊 qiè zhòng shí bì
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