Big waste
"cut your feet and fit your shoes"
"Cut off your toes and put on your shoes."
Without skin, what can hair be attached to-nothing can exist without foundation.
a two-part allegorical saying
Tear down the city god temple and set up a land temple--a small loss leads to a big loss.
Lose the cow and drive away the mosquitoes-penny wise and pound foolish.
If you lose a watermelon, no amount of hemp is enough-penny wise and pound foolish.
Picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelon-penny wise and pound foolish.
A golden bullet hit a bird-one is clever, the other is confused.
Dig the eel out of the basket (a cage with a big belly and a small mouth woven with bamboo sticks)-because of the small, it loses a lot.
Picking your eyes will make you lose big because of small things.
Killing lice and burning fur coats-penny wise and pound foolish
Kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, and kill the deer to get the velvet antler-the wood loses its cost; Trying to save a little, but losing a lot.
Swing watermelons and pick up sesame seeds-because of small losses; Evade primary responsibility and assume secondary responsibility.
Tearing clothes and mending pants-to no avail; Trying to save a little, but losing a lot.
Killing a mouse hurts a jade bottle-a penny wise and a pound foolish.
Picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelon ―― roll with the punches, roll with the punches; Big waste
Give the enemy a wife and lose his soldiers at the same time-pay double the punishment.