蝇头小利 — Chinese idiom
蝇头小利
yíng tóu xiǎo lì
Traditional: 蠅頭小利
Meaning
- meager profit; petty gain
Character by character
- 蝇yíngfly, musca
- 头tóuhead; chief, boss; first, top
- 小xiǎosmall, tiny, insignificant
- 利lìgains, advantage, profit, merit
Idioms sharing a character
- 如蝇逐臭 rú yíng zhú chòu
- 蝇营狗苟 yíng yíng gǒu gǒu
- 三天两头 sān tiān liǎng tóu
- 三头六臂 sān tóu liù bì
- 事到临头 shì dào lín tóu
- 傻头傻脑 shǎ tóu shǎ nǎo
- 冤家对头 yuān jiā duì tóu
- 出人头地 chū rén tóu dì
- 初露头角 chū lù tóu jiǎo
- 劈头盖脸 pī tóu gài liǎn
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