骑马找马 — Chinese idiom
骑马找马
qí mǎ zhǎo mǎ
Traditional: 騎馬找馬
Meaning
- (coll.) to continue in an unsatisfactory job (or romantic relationship etc) while actively looking for a better one
Character by character
- 骑qíto ride, to mount; cavalry
- 马mǎhorse; surname
- 找zhǎoto search for, to look for, to find; change (as in
- 马mǎhorse; surname
Idioms sharing a character
- 一骑绝尘 yī qí jué chén
- 势成骑虎 shì chéng qí hǔ
- 骑虎难下 qí hǔ nán xià
- 骑驴找马 qí lǘ zhǎo mǎ
- 骑驴找驴 qí lǘ zhǎo lǘ
- 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
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