破銅爛鐵

See also: 破铜烂铁

Chinese

	to break; to split; broken to break; to split; broken; damaged; worn out	copper	rotten; decayed; well-cooked rotten; decayed; well-cooked; mushy; broken; bad; to decay; completely	iron
trad. (破銅爛鐵)	破	銅	爛	鐵
simp. (破铜烂铁)	破	铜	烂	铁
Literally: “broken copper and broken iron”.

破銅爛鐵

(idiomatic) metal scrap; useless rusty metal objects
(idiomatic, by extension) anything that is broken and useless; junk
快把這堆破銅爛鐵拿出去處理掉。 [MSC, trad.]
快把这堆破铜烂铁拿出去处理掉。 [MSC, simp.]
Kuài bǎ zhè duī pòtónglàntiě ná chūqù chǔlǐ diào. [Pinyin]
Quickly take this pile of junk out to be disposed of.

Dialectal synonyms of 廢銅爛鐵 (“metal scrap”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		廢銅爛鐵, 破銅爛鐵
Mandarin	Taiwan	破銅爛鐵
Mandarin	Luoyang	破銅爛鐵
Cantonese	Guangzhou	爛銅爛鐵
Cantonese	Hong Kong	爛銅爛鐵
Gan	Nanchang	破銅爛鐵
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	破銅爛鐵
	Miaoli (Gongguan; N. Sixian)	壞銅壞鐵
	Miaoli (Zhuolan; N. Sixian)	壞銅壞鐵
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	破銅壞鐵
	Pingtung (Wuluo, Ligang; S. Sixian)	壞銅壞鐵
	Kaohsiung (Meinong; S. Sixian)	壞銅鐵
	Kaohsiung (Shanlin; S. Sixian)	壞銅壞鐵, 壞銅舊錫
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	壞銅壞鐵
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	壞銅壞鐵
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	壞銅壞鐵
	Miaoli (Zhuolan; Raoping)	壞銅壞鐵
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	壞銅壞鐵
Southern Min	Xiamen	歹銅舊錫, 臭銅爛鐵
	Zhao'an	破銅爛鐵
	Taipei	歹銅舊錫
	New Taipei (Tamsui)	歹銅舊錫
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	歹銅舊錫
	New Taipei (Pingxi)	歹銅舊錫
	Kaohsiung	歹銅舊錫
	Kaohsiung (Cijin)	歹銅舊錫
	Kaohsiung (Hongmaogang, Siaogang)	歹銅舊錫
	Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang)	歹銅舊錫
	Kaohsiung (Tianliao)	歹銅舊錫
	Yilan	歹銅舊錫
	Yilan (Luodong)	歹銅舊錫
	Yilan (Toucheng)	歹銅舊錫
	Changhua (Lukang)	歹銅舊錫
	Taichung	歹銅舊錫
	Tainan	歹銅舊錫
	Tainan (Anping)	歹銅舊錫
	Hsinchu	歹銅舊錫
	Kinmen	歹銅舊錫
	Penghu (Magong)	歹銅舊錫
	Penghu (Xiyu)	歹銅舊錫
Wu	Shanghai	破銅爛鐵, 廢銅爛鐵
Wu	Hangzhou	廢銅爛鐵

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