Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「搏牛之虻」, with more below.
The idiom 「搏牛之虻」 is the focus of our introduction today, and its explanation and application are listed below.
The original meaning was that the main goal should be to destroy the Qin State like killing a horsefly on the back of an ox, rather than to defeat others like eliminating lice. Later it was used to illustrate that his ambition is big rather than small.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bó niú zhī méng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bok3 ngau4 ji1 mong4
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