What is the idiom for the snake
What is the idiom for the snake? Chinese idioms are a cultural phenomenon unique to the Chinese nation. In life, many people use idioms when working or communicating. There are many types of idioms. Different words can form different idioms. What are the idioms for snakes. What are the idioms for snakes? 1
1. The shadow of a snake on the wall: a metaphor for being suspicious and disturbing
2. A whale swallows a snake: swallows like a whale or a snake. A metaphor for embezzlement and annexation.
3. Kneeling and snaking: kneeling to speak and walking on the ground. He was extremely intimidated.
4. Holding a snake and riding a tiger: a metaphor for an extremely dangerous situation.
5. Startle the snake into the grass: describe the vigorous and lively cursive writing.
6. Snake-hearted: Scorpion: a poisonous insect. He has a heart as vicious as a snake or a scorpion. Describes the cruelty of people's hearts. Also known as "snake and scorpion as the heart".
7. Snakes and scorpions are the heart: Scorpion: a poisonous insect of the spider type. Describes a vicious heart.
8. Snake shadow in the cup bow: [Explanation] The bow shadow in the wine cup is regarded as a snake. It is a metaphor for being frightened and frightened due to suspicion.
9. The snake wants to swallow the elephant: The snake wants to swallow the elephant. A metaphor for great greed.
10. Snake food: swallow like a snake. Whale: Swallow like a whale. It is a metaphor that the strong gradually annex the weak.
11. Snake head and rat eyes: describes a person’s ugly appearance and evil intentions. Also known as "snake eyebrows and rat eyes".
12. Snake’s heart and Buddha’s mouth: [Explanation] Buddha’s mouth, snake’s heart. The metaphor may sound nice, but the heart is extremely vicious.
13. Snake mouth and bee sting: a metaphor for vicious words and methods.
14. False and conciliatory: virtual: false; conciliatory: whatever you want. Refers to being hypocritical and perfunctory towards others.
15. The dragon and snake at the bottom of the pen: 〖Explanation〗 It still means that the pen is like a dragon and snake. Calligraphy is described as vivid and powerful.
16. The pen moves like a dragon and a snake: describes calligraphy as vivid and powerful.
17. The dragon and the snake were taken away: the dragon and the snake were taken away. Describe the momentum.
18. Raising a rhinoceros and turning it into a snake: It is a metaphor for indulging the enemy and allowing him to become stronger.
19. Grass snake gray line: 〖Explanation〗 It is a metaphor for things leaving vague clues and signs that can be found.
20. Seal the pig and cultivate the snake: see "Seal the pig and grow the snake".
21. Seal the pig and the snake: seal: big; seal the pig: the big pig; seal the snake: the big snake. Greedy like a big pig, cruel like a big snake. A metaphor for a violent person and an aggressor.
22. Poisonous snakes and beasts: generally refers to animals that are threatening to human life. Metaphor for those who are greedy and violent
23. Spring snake and autumn earthworm: See "spring earthworm and autumn snake".
24. Spring earthworm and autumn snake: The metaphor is not well written, and it is crooked, like the traces of crawling earthworms and snakes.
25. Owl snake ghost: a metaphor for ugly people.
26. Being greedy and forgetting the tail: a metaphor for only pursuing immediate benefits without considering the consequences.
27. Tiger head and snake tail: The head is as big as a tiger and the tail is as thin as a snake. The metaphor starts with a lot of momentum, but ends up with very little momentum, with a beginning and no end.
28. Add feet to the snake: When drawing a snake, add feet to the snake. The metaphor of doing unnecessary things is not only unhelpful, but also inappropriate.
29. Drawing a snake with its feet: 〖Explanation〗It is a metaphor for doing unnecessary things, which is not only useless, but inappropriate. The same as "adding superfluity to the situation".
30. Snake Bow with Cup Shadow: Same as "Snake Shadow with Cup Bow".
31. Cup snake ghost car: refers to the monster that appears in hallucinations due to doubt and fear. Cup snake, the province of "cup bow snake shadow"; ghost car
32. cup snake phantom: a metaphor for being suspicious of ghosts and disturbing each other. Same as "cup bow snake shadow".
33. The shadow of the snake in the cup: the same as the "shadow of the snake in the cup and bow".
34. The shadow of the bow reflected in the wine glass is mistaken for a snake. A metaphor for fear caused by suspicion.
35. Digging for snakes: It is a metaphor for provoking evil people and looking for trouble. What are the idioms for snakes? 2
1. Adding extra merit to the snake
Origin
If there is a temple in Chu, give wine to the deceased. The host said to each other: "Several people have not enough to drink, and one has more than enough to drink. Please draw a snake on the ground, and the first one to drink will drink." One person has a snake first. He draws the wine and drinks it. He holds a dog in his left hand and draws a snake in his right hand. He said: "I can make it enough." Before it was completed, a man's snake was made, and he took its tail and said: "The snake has no legs, how can I make it enough?" Then he drank the wine. Those who are snake-footed will eventually lose their wine.
——"Warring States Policy·Qi Ce II"
Interpretation
Add feet when drawing a snake. It refers to futile and unnecessary efforts.
Story
In ancient Chu, there was a nobleman. After offering sacrifices to his ancestors, he rewarded a pot of sacrificial wine to the disciples who came to help. The diners discussed with each other and said: "This pot of wine is not enough for everyone to drink, but it is more than enough for one person. Let us each compete on the ground to draw a snake. Whoever draws it first will drink this pot of wine." One person started first. Finished drawing the snake. He picked up the jug and was about to drink, but he proudly held the jug in his left hand and continued to draw the snake with his right hand, saying, "I can add a few more feet to it!" But before he could finish drawing the feet, another one appeared. Man has painted the snake. The man snatched the pot and said, "The snake has no legs, how can you add legs to it?" After that, he drank the wine in the pot. : The person who added feet to the snake finally lost the pot of wine that reached his mouth.
2. The Shadow of the Snake with a Bow in a Cup
Source
Yu’s grandfather Chen was appointed as the Ji Ling. On the summer solstice, he asked Du Xuan, the chief bookkeeper, to give him wine. At that time, there was a red crossbow hanging on the north wall. When it shined in the cup, it looked like a snake. He declared that he was afraid of the evil, but he did not dare not to drink it. The next day, he would suffer from abdominal pain and cut, which would hinder his diet. Hou Chen went to Xuan's house to take a peek and asked about what had happened. He was afraid of the snake and it entered his belly. Chen also listened to the matter and thought about it for a long time. When he saw the crossbow hanging, it must be true. Then he ordered his disciple Xu Fuchai to set up wine in the old place, and there was a snake in the cup, so he said to Xuan: "There must be something strange about the crossbow shadow on the wall." Xuan's meaning was then understood, and it was very strange. Yiyi, so it is flat.
——Ying Shao of the Han Dynasty, "Customs and Meanings: Weird Gods"
Interpretation
Mistaking the shadow of a bow reflected in a cup for a snake. It is a metaphor for being suspicious of gods and ghosts; disturbing oneself. It can also be used to describe illusory things that do not actually exist.
Story
One summer, the county magistrate Ying Chen invited Du Xuan, the chief registrar (the official who handled clerical affairs), to come for a drink. The banquet was held in the hall, and a red bow hung on the north wall. Due to the refraction of light, the shadow of the bow is reflected in the wine glass. Du Xuan looked at it and thought it was a snake squirming in the wine glass, and suddenly started to sweat. But the county magistrate was his superior and specially invited him to drink. He didn't dare not drink, so he took a few sips. When the servant poured the wine again, he excused himself, got up and left. After returning home, Du Xuan became more and more suspicious that the wine he had just drank contained snakes. He also felt the snakes squirming in his stomach along with the wine. He felt abnormal and unbearable pain in his chest and abdomen, and it was very difficult to eat and drink.
The family quickly asked a doctor for diagnosis and treatment. But he took a lot of medicine, but his condition still didn't improve.
A few days later, Ying Chen went to Du Xuan's house for business and asked him how he fell ill. Du Xuan told him about the snake in the wine glass when he was drinking that day. Ying Chen comforted him for a few words and then went home. He sat in the hall and recalled and thought over and over again, wondering why there was a snake in Du Xuan's wine glass.
Suddenly, the red bow on the north wall caught his attention. He immediately sat where Du Xuan sat that day, fetched a glass of wine, and placed it in his original seat. It turns out that there is a shadow of a bow in the wine glass. If you don't look closely, it does look like a snake squirming. Ying Chen immediately ordered someone to bring Du Xuan in a carriage, asked him to sit in his place, and asked him to carefully look at the shadow in the wine glass, and said: "The snake in the glass you mentioned is just the reflection of the bow on the wall." That's all, there's nothing weird. Now you can rest assured!"
After Du Xuan found out the whole story, his doubts disappeared immediately and his illness was quickly cured.
3. To alert the snake
Source
Wang Lu was the prime minister of Tu, and he was very concerned about his assets, so he joined the people of his ministry to join the petition. When he sued the chief registrar for corruption and bribery, Lu Nai said: "Although you are cutting grass, I will be surprised." Those who do good things always speak the truth.
——Song Dynasty Zheng Wenbao's "Recent Events in the Southern Tang Dynasty"
Interpretation
To disturb the snake lying in the grass when cutting grass. The original metaphor is to punish Party A to warn Party B or that Party A will be punished; to make Party B feel panic. Later, it is often used as a metaphor for alerting the other party due to careless and loose actions.
Story
During the Tang Dynasty, there was a man named Wang Lu. When he was an official in the yamen, he often accepted bribes and did not abide by the laws. One day, someone handed a piece of paper to the Yamen, accusing Wang Lu's subordinates of breaking the law and accepting bribes. Wang Lu took a look and saw that the various charges written on the pleading were exactly the same as his usual illegal behavior. Wang Lu was trembling while looking at the petition paper: "This...isn't this talking about me?"
The more Wang Lu looked at it, the more frightened he became. He forgot how to approve the petition paper, and actually wrote this on the petition paper. Eight big characters: "Although you are striking grass, I have been frightened by snakes." It means that you are doing this to strike grass on the ground, but I am like a snake hiding in the grass, but I am greatly frightened. Jumped!
4. Spring Earthworm and Autumn Snake
Source
(Xiao) Ziyun was famous in Jiangbiao in recent times, but he could only write a book and had no husband. Qi. The movement is like a lingering spring earthworm, and the words are like a coiled autumn snake. The lying king is covered in the paper, and the sitting figure is crouching under the pen. Although the skin of a thousand rabbits is bald, not a single muscle can be gathered together; the skin of a thousand grains is poor, but not a single bone can be gathered together. To spread beauty, is it not because of the evil name?
——"Book of Jin·Biography of Wang Xizhi"
Interpretation
Xiao Ziyun was a famous poet in the Xiao Liang era He was a calligrapher, but Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, believed that his characters were shapeless, lacking muscles and bones, and were as curved as earthworms in spring and snakes in autumn.
5. Flying birds frighten snakes
Source
In the Tang Dynasty, Shi Yalou, a monk who was good at cursive calligraphy, once wrote a couplet: "Flying birds enter the forest and frighten snakes." "Into the grass."
——"Fashion Garden"
Interpretation
Just like a bird entering the forest or a frightened snake scurrying into the grass. Describe cursive writing as natural and smooth.
Story
Shi Yalou was a monk in the Tang Dynasty. He stayed in temples for a long time, burning incense and chanting sutras. Other monks secretly played chess and slept in their free time, but Shi Yalou bought inkstone, pen and paper to practice calligraphy. Sometimes in the middle of the night, he is still practicing hard. As each year passed, he became more and more proficient in writing. Many people who burned incense and worshiped Buddha also came to ask him to write. He agreed one by one. : His cursive writing is particularly elegant and unrestrained.
Someone asked him: "How to calculate cursive script well?" Shi Yalou wrote eight words: "Birds come out of the forest, startling snakes into the grass!" What is the idiom of the snake 3
Adding superfluity to the snake
The shadow of a snake in a cup and a bow
The imaginary and the snake
The lack of people's hearts and snakes swallowing elephants
The ghosts and ghosts
The writing moves the dragon and the snake
A tiger's head but a snake's tail
Striking the grass to scare the snake
Fighting to break the snake's path
Snake's head and rat's eyes
Hitting the snake seven inches long
Grass snake Gray line
A long snake array
A strong dragon will not suppress the local snake
Alarming the snake into the grass
Snake and scorpion heart
Dragon and snake mixed
Buddha mouth and snake heart
Dragon head and snake tail
Sealed pig and long snake
Pearl of the Spiritual Snake
Spring Earthworm and Autumn Snake
Three Snakes and Seven Rats
Year-old Dragon Snake
Flying Birds Startle Snakes
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One dragon and one snake
The shadow of the snake in the cup
Looking for the snake in the grass