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Examples:sealed pot calcination (TCM)—(dialect) pot-scrubbing brush, made from bamboo strips—lit. mention the pot that doesn't boil (common saying); touch a sore spot—lit. smash a cracked pot; fig. to treat oneself as hopeless and act crazily—hot pot with a divider, containing spicy soup on one side, mild soup on the other—lit. it takes a long time make a big pot (idiom); fig. a great talent matures slowly—put lid on (cooking pot)—lit. smash a cracked pot (idiom); crazy despair in the face of a blemish, defect, error or setback—lit. use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom); fig. a waste of precious material—water pot or goblet (for Chinese calligraphy)—pot-scrubbing brush, made from bamboo strips—pot-holed and bumpy road (idiom); fig. full of disappointment and dashed hopes—the pot calls the kettle black—You can't judge a person by appearance, just as you can't measure the sea with a pint pot. [idiom.]—lit. eyeing what's in the pot as one eats from one's bowl [idiom.]— |