「巧婦難為無米炊 / 巧婦難為無米之炊」
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| Individual Character Meaning： |
巧 coincidental; skilful; by chance; skillful; ingenious 婦 woman; married woman 難 difficult; disaster; hard; catastrophe; calamity; suffering; generally, trouble 為 to act as; to be; in order to; to become; for; for the sake of; for the purpose of; because of; to do; to practice; to act 無 nothing; none; nil; without; lacking 米 rice; metre; small dried object; money 炊 to cook |
| Variants： | Variants： 巧婦難爲無米炊 、 巧婦難爲無米之炊 |
| Part of Speech： | expression |
| Explanation： |
cannot make bricks without straw; literally, a skilled housewife cannot cook rice with nothing
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| Synonym： | Synonym： 無氈無扇，神仙難變 |
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