粵

鼎ding2鐺dong1玉juk6石sek6

simp鼎铛玉石
ding2 dong1 juk6 sek6inferreddǐng chēng yù shí

English

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

Sources: cc-cedict, synthesized

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