jiǎ zhī mì táng , yǐ zhī pī shuāng

甲之蜜糖，乙之砒霜 (jiǎ zhī mì táng , yǐ zhī pī shuāng) is a Chinese word meaning “one man's meat is another man's poison (idiom)”.

Meanings

  1. 1one man's meat is another man's poison (idiom)

Characters in 甲之蜜糖，乙之砒霜

甲jiǎ · first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]之zhī · (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5])蜜mì · honey糖táng · sugar乙yǐ · second of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]之zhī · (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5])砒pī · arsenic霜shuāng · frost

Related words

之(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5])之前before之后after; behind之间(after a noun) between; among; amid之一one of (sth)之类and so on之中inside糖sugar糖old variant of 糖[tang2]总之in a word之外outside之内inside; within

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