上屋搬下屋，唔見一籮穀
简 上屋搬下屋，唔见一箩谷 · 繁 上屋搬下屋，唔見一籮穀Meanings
- one will always end up incurring some losses one way or the other in the moving process no matter how close you are moving to [colloquial]
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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: shang4wu1 ban1 xia4 wu1, n2 jian4 yi1 luo2 gu3. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
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