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鼎鐺玉石

dǐngchēngyùshí

ㄉㄧㄥˇ ㄔㄥ ㄩˋ ㄕˊ

Simplified 鼎铛玉石

  1. 1lit. to use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom); fig. a waste of precious material
  2. 2casting pearls before swine

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