An idiom, sighing at the sea.

Mourn your own smallness in front of the vast sea-bemoan your own smallness in front of great things

Pronunciation wàng yàng x and ng t à n

Interpretation of Looking at the Sea: Looking Up. Look up at Poseidon and sigh. The original intention is to sigh your smallness in front of great things. Doing things now is more like feeling helpless because of incompetence or insufficient conditions.

The source "Zhuangzi Qiushui": "So, Hebo began to look at the ocean and sigh." The story of sighing at the ocean

She Nianzu was filled with joy before she arrived, and she was quite eager to try. After she arrived, she probably looked at the situation and felt very disappointed. (Qing Wu Ren Jian's The Confused World, Volume 6)

Synonym powerless, helpless

The antonym is arrogance.