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From: MDBG CC-CEDICT Chinese-English Dictionary 漢英字典

 鼎鐺玉石 [ㄉㄧㄥˇ ㄔㄥ ㄩˋ ㄕˊ; ding3 cheng1 yu4 shi2]
 lit. to use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom); fig. a waste of precious material
 casting pearls before swine