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短中抽长

duǎn zhōng chōu cháng

4-character word Traditional 短中抽長

What 短中抽长 means

1. to make the best of a bad job
2. to make the best use of limited resources (idiom)

The characters in 短中抽长

• 短duǎnshort; brief; to lack
• 中zhōngwithin; among; in; middle; center; while (doing sth); during
• 抽chōuto draw out; to pull out from in between; to remove part of the whole…
• 长chánglong; (bound form) length; (bound form) strong point; forte