A cup of water
Thanks for a cup of water, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ē ishu ǐ zh ī Xi è, which means a meager reward. From scholars.
Idiom usage
As an object; of meagre reward
Analysis of Idioms
Synonyms: the cup of tea, the cup of water, the cup of water
The origin of Idioms
The fifth chapter of scholars: "the next day, FengSi's father left wanzhongshu, but he didn't accept his thanks and took the road to Hangzhou."
Chinese PinYin : bēi shuǐ zhī xiè
A cup of water
broadening one 's intellectual horizon and keeping within the bounds of propriety. bó wén yuè lǐ
un-matched in the past and the present. zhuó jué qiān gǔ
spread a net for sparrows and dig for rats. luó què jué shǔ