dǐng chēng yù shí
Traditional: 鼎鐺玉石
鼎铛玉石 (dǐng chēng yù shí) is a Chinese word meaning “lit. to use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom); fig. a waste of precious material; casting pearls before swine”.
Meanings
- 1lit. to use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom); fig. a waste of precious material
- 2casting pearls before swine