鼎铛玉石
Word
lit. to use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom); fig. a waste of precious material
- Traditional
- 鼎鐺玉石
dǐng chēng yù shí
ding3cheng1yu4shi2Meaning
- lit. to use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom); fig. a waste of precious material CC-CEDICT
- casting pearls before swine CC-CEDICT