Characters

• 尾 (尾): tail; remainder; remnant; extremity; sixth of the 28 constellations; classifier for fish
• 大 (大): big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]); greatly; freely; fully; (dialect) father; (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
• 不 (不): no; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 掉 (掉): to fall; to drop; to lag behind; to lose; to go missing; to reduce; fall (in prices); to lose (value, weight etc); to wag; to swing; to turn; to change; to exchange; to swap; to show off; to shed (hair); (used after certain verbs to express completion, fulfillment, removal etc)

Resources

• Wiktionary: 尾大不掉
• MDBG: 尾大不掉
• Examples with 尾大不掉 on Tatoeba

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