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# 天下沒有不散的筵席 天下没有不散的筵席 [mei2 you3 bu2 san4 de yan2 xi2] /all good things must come to an end/

# notice the py field is incomplete:天下; light tone must be indicated: de5; tone sandhi must NOT be indicated: bu4

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# Editor :

# first check the dict. This is a common expression. It could appear in different forms. Search 不散的

# # 天下沒有不散的宴席 天下没有不散的宴席 [tian1 xia4 mei2 you3 bu4 san4 de5 yan4 xi2] /all good things must come to an end (idiom)/

# notice the English def is exactly the same, so no problem here.

# Now we have to make a decision. Keep one? Keep both? Make 宴席 a "variant" of "筵席"?

# 宴席 is more common on the web. Notice that that Nciku example writes 筵 but the pinyin says yan4, which really shows the author was used to the 2nd form.

# However, dicts only give the 1st form, with good literary quotes. And this saying is far from new.

# 宴席 sound like a modern, more formal word, whereas 筵席, now obsolete, was more like a party between friends.

# So I'll have:

# Note the redirection: "see ..." -- It helps to keep entries in sync, and any reasonably intelligent electronic tool should be able to fetch the main entry instantly.