良药苦口 (良藥苦口) liáng yào kǔ kǒu
liáng yào kǔ kǒu
set phrase
good medicine tastes bitter; frank criticism is hard to swallow
Domain: Idiom 成语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '良藥苦口')
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- 卷一百六十八 列傳第五十五: 陳祐 劉宣 何榮祖 陳思濟 秦長卿 趙與□ 姚天福 許國禎 Volume 168 Biographies 55: Chen You, Liu Xuan, He Rongzu, Chen Siji, Qin Zhangqing, Zhao Yu□, Yao Tianfu, Xu Guozhen History of Yuan 元史 — count: 2
- 卷七十四下 袁紹劉表列傳 Volume 74b: Biographies of Yuan Shao, Liu Biao 2 Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 1
- 第六十回 Chapter 60 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 1
- 卷四十三 Scroll 43 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 1
- 卷五十九 吳書十四 吳主五子傳 Volume 59: Book of Wu 14 - Biographies of the five sons of the Lord of Wu Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 1
Collocations
- 良药苦口利于 (良藥苦口利於) 良藥苦口利於病 — History of Yuan 元史, 卷一百六十八 列傳第五十五: 陳祐 劉宣 何榮祖 陳思濟 秦長卿 趙與□ 姚天福 許國禎 Volume 168 Biographies 55: Chen You, Liu Xuan, He Rongzu, Chen Siji, Qin Zhangqing, Zhao Yu□, Yao Tianfu, Xu Guozhen — count: 3