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患得患失

huàn dé huàn shī

4-character word

What 患得患失 means

1. to worry about personal gains and losses

The characters in 患得患失

• 患huànto suffer (from illness); to contract (a disease); misfortune
• 得destructural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to…
• 患huànto suffer (from illness); to contract (a disease); misfortune
• 失shīto lose; to miss; to fail

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