瘦田冇人耕，耕開有人爭
简 瘦田冇人耕，耕开有人争 · 繁 瘦田冇人耕，耕開有人爭Meanings
- describes something
- someone which no one wanted at first but became popular as soon as one person started to take an interest [colloquial]
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Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
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Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: shou4 tian2 mao3 ren2 geng1, geng1 kai1 you3ren2 zheng1. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
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