{"path":"/entry/23755","title":"因噎废食 / 因噎廢食 (yīn yē fèi shí) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"因噎废食 / 因噎廢食 (yīn yē fèi shí): literally not eating for fear of choking (idiom) · figuratively to cut off one's nose to spite one's face. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":23755,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["因噎废食"],"TRADITIONAL":["因噎廢食"]}},"phonetic":"yīn yē fèi shí","phoneticKey":"yin1 ye1 fei4 shi2","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"literally not eating for fear of choking ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"figuratively to cut off one's nose to spite one's face","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to avoid something essential because of a slight risk","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["NOUN","VERB"],"frequency":60501,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":"to not eat because of [fear or experience of] choking","content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From Lüshi Chunqiu:","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"Note that 饐 /𮩞 here was a 通假字 (tōngjiǎzì), which, as per Jiyun, had the same meaning and pronunciation as 噎.","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"夫有以𮩞死者，欲禁天下之食，悖；有以乘舟死者，欲禁天下之船，悖；有以用兵丧其国者，欲偃天下之兵，悖。","traditional":"夫有以饐死者，欲禁天下之食，悖；有以乘舟死者，欲禁天下之船，悖；有以用兵喪其國者，欲偃天下之兵，悖。"},"phonetic":"Fú yǒu yǐ yì sǐ zhě, yù jìn tiānxià zhī shí, bèi; yǒu yǐ chéngzhōu sǐ zhě, yù jìn tiānxià zhī chuán, bèi; yǒu yǐ yòngbīng sàng qí guó zhě, yù yǎn tiānxià zhī bīng, bèi.","english":"It is nonsense to forbid the world’s people to eat just because one person has choked to death when eating; it is nonsense to put the world's boats in disuse just because someone has drowned while sailing; it is also nonsense to eliminate the world's military forces just because one sovereign has lost his state due to his military action.","ref":"Lü Buwei, Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals, 239 BCE"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}