夹生饭

夹生饭

Literally means:

half-cooked rice

Actually means:

a knotty problem

It literally refers to half-cooked rice.

This phrase figuratively means a knotty problem resulting from an unsettled issue. It usually connotes that when an issue is not solved completely it could only remain its originally premature state, or it will result in an undesired and incorrigible consequence. Derogatory.

没有熟透的米饭。

比喻事情没有彻底做好而造成的难以解决的问题。多指做得不彻底的事只能处于原来的不成熟状态，或者它所造成的后果是难以消除的。具有贬义色彩。