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爛
泥
扶
不
上
牆
[
烂
----
墙
]
Jyutping
laan6 nai4 fu4 bat1 soeng5 coeng4
Pinyin
làn ní fú bù shàng qiáng
Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
useless (idiom)
worthless
inept
Definitions (Wiktionary)
phrase, idiomatic
to be so incompetent that others' help is of no use; to be hopelessly inept
(syn.) 滥泥糊毋上壁, 烂泥扶唔上壁, 濫泥糊毋上壁, 爛泥扶唔上壁
Examples (Tatoeba—Mandarin-English)
Mandarin
烂泥扶不上墙。
爛泥扶不上牆。
làn ní fú bù shàng qiáng 。
You can't raise a cat to be a dog.