虱多不痒 — Chinese idiom
虱多不痒
shī duō bù yǎng
Traditional: 蝨多不癢
Meaning
- (lit.) when covered with lice, one doesn't feel the itching anymore
- (fig.) to be past worrying (about sth)
Character by character
- 虱shībug, louse, parasite
- 多duōmuch, many, multi-; more than, over
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 痒yǎngto itch; to tickle
Idioms sharing a character
- 不遑多让 bù huáng duō ràng
- 人多势众 rén duō shì zhòng
- 以少胜多 yǐ shǎo shèng duō
- 债多不愁 zhài duō bù chóu
- 僧多粥少 sēng duō zhōu shǎo
- 凶多吉少 xiōng duō jí shǎo
- 博学多才 bó xué duō cái
- 博识多通 bó shí duō tōng
- 名目繁多 míng mù fán duō
- 命途多舛 mìng tú duō chuǎn
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