择日不如撞日

lit. carefully setting an auspicious date does not beat seizing an opportunity (idiom) / fig. seize the occasion

to select / to choose / to pick over / to pick out / to differentiate / to eliminate / also pr. [zhai2]

to fix a date (for an event) / to select an auspicious date

abbr. for 日本[Ri4 ben3], Japan

sun / day / date, day of the month

no; not so / (bound form) not; un-

not equal to / not as good as / inferior to / it would be better to

as / as if / such as

to knock against / to bump into / to run into / to meet by accident