取长补短

取长补短 [qǔ cháng bǔ duǎn]

1. ■ learn from others' strong points and close the gap; adopt sb.'s strong points while overcoming one's weak points; draw on the strong points of others to make up for one's own weak points; learn from other's strong points to make up one's deficiencies; learn from others' strong points to offset one's weaknesses; make up for each other's deficiencies and learn from each other; mutually to make up their deficiencies; overcome one's own shortcomings by learning from others' strong points; overcome one's own shortcomings by learning from the strong points of others; overcome one's weaknesses by acquiring others' strong points; overcome their own weak points by learning from each other's strong points:

取长补短， 共同提高 draw on each other's merits and raise the level together; learn each other's good points for common progress