小作怡情，大作傷身 xiǎo zuò yí qíng ， dà zuò shāng shēn

DEFINITIONS

  1. a little bit of it does one good, but carried to excess it's harmful (idiom)

CHARACTERS

小 xiǎo
HSK 1
small, tiny, insignificant
作 zuò
HSK 1
make; work; compose, write; act, perform
怡 yí harmony; pleasure, joy; be glad
情 qíng
HSK 2
feeling, sentiment, emotion
大 dà
HSK 1
big, great, vast, large, high
作 zuò
HSK 1
make; work; compose, write; act, perform
傷 shāng wound, injury; fall ill from
身 shēn
HSK 2
body; trunk, hull; rad. no. 158