騎驢找馬
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Chinese[edit]
to ride (an animal or bike); to sit astride | donkey | to try to find; to look for; to call on (sb) to try to find; to look for; to call on (sb); to find; to seek; to return |
horse; surname | ||
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trad. (騎驢找馬) | 騎 | 驢 | 找 | 馬 | |
simp. (骑驴找马) | 骑 | 驴 | 找 | 马 | |
Literally: “to ride on a donkey and look for a horse”. |
Pronunciation[edit]
Idiom[edit]
騎驢找馬
- (figurative, colloquial) to settle for what one has for the moment (e.g. job, girlfriend, etc.) while actively looking for something better