the students surpass the teacher

the students surpass the teacher

Ice is colder than water, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ī NGH á NY ú Shu ǐ, which means that ice is better than water; it means that students are better than teachers. It's from persuasion.

The origin of Idioms

Xunzi's persuasion: "ice, water for it, and cold in water."

Idiom usage

Subject predicate; as predicate and object; with commendatory meaning. Example (DAO) Shi Shi Zhang (Ji Bo), who is cold than water. "Notes of famous paintings in the past dynasties · 7 · Nanqi" by Zhang Yanyuan in Tang Dynasty