cut off the long and compensate the short(duàn chāng bǔ duǎn)

cut off the long and compensate the short

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Du à NCH á NGB à Du à n, meaning to cut off the long to make up for the short; metaphor to take the strengths of others to make up for their own shortcomings. It comes from the book of rites, the king system.

The origin of Idioms

According to the book of rites, the system of Kings: "within the four seas, there are three thousand li of land and eight billion one trillion mu of land."

Analysis of Idioms

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Idiom usage

As predicate, object, etc.

Examples

In Yuan Zhen's book "conferring on Li Yuan the system of Jiedushi of Sikong Xuanwu army", it is said that "if there is no strong point to make up for the weak point, it will be thousands of Li Li Li's strong point, but if there is no strong point, how can it be added?"

Chinese PinYin : duàn chāng bǔ duǎn