没齿难忘 — Chinese idiom
没齿难忘
mò chǐ nán wàng
Traditional: 沒齒難忘
Meaning
- hard to forget even after one's teeth fall out ; to remember a benefactor as long as one lives
- undying gratitude
Character by character
- 没mònot, none, gone; to bury; to sink, to drown
- 齿chǐteeth; gears, cogs; age
- 难nánhard, difficult, arduous; unable
- 忘wàngto forget, to miss, to neglect, to overlook
Idioms sharing a character
- 全军覆没 quán jūn fù mò
- 功不可没 gōng bù kě mò
- 没事找事 méi shì zhǎo shì
- 没吃没穿 méi chī méi chuān
- 没头没脸 méi tóu méi liǎn
- 神出鬼没 shén chū guǐ mò
- 不足挂齿 bù zú guà chǐ
- 伶牙俐齿 líng yá lì chǐ
- 切齿腐心 qiè chǐ fǔ xīn
- 口齿伶俐 kǒu chǐ líng lì
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