







打着灯笼没处寻 is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “Extremely rare and hard to find”. One of a kind. Literally, “Cannot be found even if one searches with a lantern”.

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Open the tool →打着灯笼没处寻 (dǎ zhe dēng lóng méi chù xún) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “Extremely rare and hard to find”.
打着灯笼没处寻 is pronounced dǎ zhe dēng lóng méi chù xún in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 打着灯笼没处寻 means “Cannot be found even if one searches with a lantern”. It is used to mean “Extremely rare and hard to find”.
比喻很难得,不容易得到