不一而足
Meanings
CC-CEDICT
- 1.by no means an isolated case
- 2.numerous
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Wiktionary
- 1.cannot be described only by one example; by no means an isolated case; to be numerous; innumerable
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Etymology
The original and literal meaning in the Gongyang was "to not make full (the approval) all at once", i.e., to be conditional and graduated in dispensing approval. It was also written as "不壹而足" in the Gongyang, and typically used in the phrase : As chengyu, the phrase has been re-analysed semantically in common usage and shifted in meaning.
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Components
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