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鼎铛玉石

dǐng chēng yù shí phrase

Traditional: 鼎鐺玉石

  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
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