鼎铛玉石
dǐng chēng yù shídingchengyushi
- 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
dǐng chēng yù shídingchengyushi
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