1, penny wise and pound foolish? 【yīn Xiǎo shdà】?
Interpretation: For small interests, cause great losses.
Departure: Huang Qing Xiaopei's Twenty Years of Fan Huameng: "He just ignores it and only says that he is in a foreign country and can be fine. I don't know if I checked it, how can he know how to fight terrorism because of a small loss? "
Sentence-making: if you pay attention to the part but not to the overall situation, you will lose big because of small.
2. Is it not worth the loss? [déb cháng shé]?
Interpretation: Compensation: Worth it. The gain is outweighed by the loss.
Out: "The Biography of Western Qiang in the Later Han Dynasty": "Therefore, it is not rewarded; Get twice the result with half the effort. '
Sentence: In pursuit of fame and fortune, modern people often neglect their health, which is not worth the loss.
3. Give up everything? 【shbīn zhúmò】?
Interpretation: give up: give up; 11: Pursuit. Abandon the fundamental and the main, and pursue the secondary and the secondary. Metaphor does not grasp the fundamental link, but only works hard on side issues.
Out: "Lu Chunqiu Shang Nong": "People give up the basics and do nothing; If you don't order, you can't stay; Do not fight. People give up the basics and make a contract; Its labor contract is light migration; Light migration makes the country suffer; Have lofty aspirations; Without any intention. "
Sentence-making: writing an article only pursues the form and does not pay attention to the content, that is, giving up the root and chasing the end.
4. put triviality above importance? [püfáng zh]?
Interpretation: Broken belly hides pearls. Metaphor hurts the body, and the weight is reversed.
Out: Song Sima Guang's "Zi Tongzhi Jian Tang Taizong Zhenguan First Year": "I heard that Jia Hu of the Western Region had won the beautiful pearl, so he cut his body and hid it. What are they? "
Sentence: It is really undesirable that he risked his life for money.
5. Fighting for chickens and losing sheep? 【zhēng jīshyáng】?
Explanation: Metaphor is greed and loss.
Out: Han Jiao Yanshou's Lin Yi, Volume 8: "If the chicken loses the sheep, it will kill its golden sac."
Sentence: He always does something to win the prize.