一毛不拔

yī máo bù bá

HSK level: HSK 7–9

Meaning

(lit.) unwilling to spare a single hair (idiom); (fig.) extremely stingy

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一yīone; a, an; alone 毛máohair, fur, feathers; coarse乇一不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix一拔báto uproot, to pull out; to select, to promote扌犮