keep at arm 's length(bù kě xiàng ěr)

keep at arm 's length

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ù K ě Xi à ng ě R, meaning inaccessible. It comes from the book of Shang, the first chapter of Pan Geng.

Notes on Idioms

You: near.

The origin of Idioms

"If the fire is burning in the plain, it can't be put out to you, it can still be put out."

Idiom usage

To describe a person or thing that is inaccessible. I got up early in the morning and went to the station at dawn to look for a car. However, I was in a state of hurry, congestion and chaos. I couldn't go anywhere, but I came back. Feng Zikai's escape from the disaster of art 2. Compared with the trend of "reflection", "method" and "Book Writing" in the 1980s, the literary criticism in the 1990s has lost its vitality and passion. Comparing the role and value function of criticism with "guide", "bridge", "grindstone" and "qingdaofu", Huang Yuhuang has become more specious and more distant Luxury, the status quo makes a full range of realism for the embarrassment of Literary Criticism: the thunderous "news release" makes criticism invincible; there is no need for a happy public to extradite; writers imitate Faulkner and Hemingway and look down on criticism with arrogance and disdain, and even the practitioners of criticism are listless and tired, resulting in mass loss and differentiation; to the end, the writer's criticism is still in a state of crisis The criticism needs to be advocated like "poverty alleviation" and be subject to the "justice" and "ruling" of the civil court. It also points to the weakness of criticism from the logical premise.

Idiom story

During the Shang Dynasty, pan Geng moved his capital to Yin after he came to power. The princes and ministers strongly opposed it and discussed it in private. Pan Geng was very angry, so he called them to scold each other face to face, saying that they colluded with each other and used groundless nonsense to scare and incite the people: "if the fire starts in the prairie, it can't be put out, it can still be put out."

Chinese PinYin : bù kě xiàng ěr