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Meaning of 投鼠忌器

Lookup via: Pinyin | Radicals
tóu shǔ
lit. to refrain from shooting at the rat for fear of breaking the vases (idiom); to not act against an evil so as to prevent harm to innocents
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Even if Iran did get the bomb, it would probably not use it for fear of Israel' s bigger, existing stockpile.
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But even if governments judge that the risks posed by raising rates now outweighs that of keeping them low, investors still have plenty of reasons to worry.
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I good change ah, said some specific, I want to think, I bombing in the crook, whether "glass house should not throw stones. " not enough, whether injury and innocent.
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The grim specter of the potential chaos associated with the collapse of the Kim regime in the event of war has led neighboring countries to treat it with kid gloves.
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"It's not that religion is not important, " says Paul Bloom, a psychologist at Yale University, "it's that the taboo nature of the topic has meant there has been little progress."