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因小失大

因小失大

Chinese

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|- ! !cause; reason; because

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small; tiny; few; young

!to lose; to miss; to fail

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big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor

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Idiom

因小失大

  1. to save a little only to lose a lot