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Trad. 寡不敵眾
- the few are no match for the many
- heavily outnumbered
- facing impossible odds (idiom)
Trad. 眾寡懸殊
- (idiom) a great disparity in numerical strength
Trad. 清心寡慾
- (idiom) uninterested in self-indulgence
- abstemious
- ascetic
- one who is cut off from others (idiom)
- one who has chosen to follow a solitary path
- (can also be an indirect way of referring to an unmarried person)
Trad. 紅寡婦鳥
- (ornithology) red bishop (Euplectes orix)
- a single man and a single woman
- bachelors
- a man and a woman together (typically in a secluded setting)
Trad. 清湯寡水
- meager fare
- (fig.) insipid
- colorless
Trad. 孤陋寡聞
- ignorant and inexperienced
- ill-informed and narrow-minded
- habitually silent (idiom)
- reticent
- uncommunicative
- difficult songs find few singers (idiom)
- highbrow
- an unjust cause finds little support (idiom, from Mencius)
- cf 得道多助[de2 dao4 duo1 zhu4] a just cause attracts much support
- to take from the rich and give to the poor (idiom)
Trad. 敵眾我寡
- multitude of enemies, few friends (idiom from Mencius)
- heavily outnumbered
- beaten by the weight of numbers
Trad. 鰥寡孤獨
- lit. widowers, widows, orphans and the childless (idiom)
- fig. people with no one left to rely on
Trad. 木訥寡言
- honest and unaffected but not talkative (idiom)
- do not worry about scarcity, but rather about uneven distribution (idiom, from Analects)
- A just cause attracts much support, an unjust one finds little (idiom, from Mencius)