争分夺秒 — Chinese idiom
争分夺秒
zhēng fēn duó miǎo
Traditional: 爭分奪秒
Meaning
- lit. fight minutes, snatch seconds ; a race against time
- making every second count
Character by character
- 争zhēngto dispute, to fight, to contend, to strive
- 分fēnto divide, to allocate; fraction; small unit of ti
- 夺duóto rob, to snatch, to take by force
- 秒miǎoa second; a corn kernel; measure word for time
Idioms sharing a character
- 你争我夺 nǐ zhēng wǒ duó
- 两虎相争 liǎng hǔ xiāng zhēng
- 分秒必争 fēn miǎo bì zhēng
- 力争上游 lì zhēng shàng yóu
- 只争朝夕 zhǐ zhēng zhāo xī
- 明争暗斗 míng zhēng àn dòu
- 争先恐后 zhēng xiān kǒng hòu
- 争名夺利 zhēng míng duó lì
- 争斤论两 zhēng jīn lùn liǎng
- 争权夺利 zhēng quán duó lì
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