- lit. not eating for fear of choking (idiom); fig. to cut off one's nose to spite one's face
- to avoid sth essential because of a slight risk
Characters
- 因 (囙): old variant of 因[yin1]
- 噎 (噎): to choke (on); to choke up; to suffocate
- 废 (廢): to abolish; to abandon; to abrogate; to discard; to depose; to oust; crippled; abandoned; waste
- 食 (食): to eat; food; animal feed; eclipse
Resources
- Wiktionary: 因噎废食
- MDBG: 因噎废食
- Examples with 因噎废食 on Tatoeba
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