三天不打，上房揭瓦
Chinese
| three | day; sky; heaven | not; no | beat; strike; break beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen |
to scale the roof to rip the tiles; to cause havoc in the house | |||
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| trad. (三天不打，上房揭瓦) | 三 | 天 | 不 | 打 | ， | 上房揭瓦 | |
| simp. #(三天不打，上房揭瓦) | 三 | 天 | 不 | 打 | ， | 上房揭瓦 | |
| Literally: “Don't beat (a child) for three days and (the child will) scale the roof to rip the tiles”. | |||||||
Pronunciation
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