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眼里容不得沙子

yǎn lǐ róng bu dé shā zi

7-character word Traditional 眼裡容不得沙子

What 眼里容不得沙子 means

1. can't bear having grit in one's eye (idiom)
2. unable to put sth objectionable out of one's mind
3. not prepared to turn a blind eye

The characters in 眼里容不得沙子

• 眼yǎneye; (often used with 一; small hole
• 里lǐlining; interior; inside
• 容róngto hold; to contain; to allow
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 得destructural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to…
• 沙shāgranule; hoarse; raspy
• 子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子