a loss may turn out to be a gain(běi sǒu shī mǎ)

a loss may turn out to be a gain

Beisou lost his horse, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ě is ǒ ush ī m ǎ, which means that there is no definite difference between fortune and misfortune. It comes from the biography of Xiao in the old book of Tang Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

In the old book of the Tang Dynasty, the biography of Xiao Xun: "we should suffer from the disaster of heart dissection. When we see the day of peace, the old man in the North lost his horse, and it's hard to do it often."

Idiom story

In ancient times, an old man's horse ran to the Hu people outside the Great Wall. The villagers comforted him, saying that it was not necessarily a bad thing. A few days later, the lost horse came back with some fiery horses. The old man thought that this was not necessarily a good thing. His son broke his leg on a horse. The old man thought it was not a bad thing. Later, the old man's son escaped the war because of his leg injury

Idiom usage

The same as "a blessing in disguise" the event that the old man lost his horse may not have happened.

Analysis of Idioms

A blessing in disguise

Chinese PinYin : běi sǒu shī mǎ