坐失机宜 — Chinese idiom
坐失机宜
zuò shī jī yí
Traditional: 坐失機宜
Meaning
- to sit and waste a good opportunity ; to lose the chance
Character by character
- 坐zuòseat; to sit; to ride, to travel by
- 失shīto lose; to make a mistake, to neglect
- 机jīdesk; machine; moment, opportunity
- 宜yífitting, proper, right; what one should do
Idioms sharing a character
- 坐不垂堂 zuò bù chuí táng
- 坐井观天 zuò jǐng guān tiān
- 坐享其成 zuò xiǎng qí chéng
- 坐以待毙 zuò yǐ dài bì
- 坐吃山空 zuò chī shān kōng
- 坐失良机 zuò shī liáng jī
- 坐收渔利 zuò shōu yú lì
- 坐立不安 zuò lì bù ān
- 坐立难安 zuò lì nán ān
- 坐而论道 zuò ér lùn dào
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