- to satisfy rival demands (idiom)
- to get the best of both worlds
- to have it both ways
- to have one's cake and eat it too
Characters
- 两 (兩): two; both; some; a few; tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1⁄16 of a catty 斤[jin1] (old)
- 全 (全): surname Quan
- 其 (其): his; her; its; their; that; such; it (refers to sth preceding it)
- 美 (美): (bound form) the Americas (abbr. for 美洲[Mei3 zhou1]); (bound form) USA (abbr. for 美國|美国[Mei3 guo2])
Resources
- Wiktionary: 两全其美
- MDBG: 两全其美
- Examples with 两全其美 on Tatoeba
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