too big for her skin(bù zì liàng lì)

too big for her skin

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ù Z ì Li à NGL ì, which means you can't measure your own ability. To overestimate one's strength. It comes from Zuo Zhuan, the 11th year of Yin Gong, and Warring States policy, Qi CE San.

Idiom explanation

Measure: measure. I don't measure my ability. To overestimate one's strength.

Idiom usage

In a table tennis match, Xiao Gang took the initiative to challenge the last champion. The students all said that he was an egg against a stone. Yu Gong's attempt to move the mountain is beyond his capacity. a little mouse said that it could hit an elephant, but everyone laughed at it for overstating its ability. although the company is not a place where democracy is practised, if it is completely arbitrary, it is easy to fail due to various whims and personality defects, overstepping, Emotionalization, limitations and preferences.

The origin of Idioms

"No virtue, no strength" in Zuo Zhuan, the eleventh year of Yin Gong "Jing is very solid, and Xue does not measure his strength," said Qi CE San, the Warring States strategy

Idioms and allusions

There is a historical story in the eleventh year of Zuo Zhuan: in the spring and Autumn period, there are two vassal states in Henan Province, one is the state of Zheng, the other is the state of Xi. In 712 BC, there was a dispute. The monarch of the state of Xi did not adopt the attitude of negotiation to solve the dispute, but rashly sent troops and launched a war against the state of Zheng. Although the two vassal states were very small, the manpower and material resources of Xi state were much less than that of Zheng State, and the military strength was also much weaker. Zheng was forced to fight with the enemy, and the war naturally ended with the defeat of Xi. Afterwards, some insightful people analyzed it and said, "Xiguo has committed five wrongs, so it will fail. Moreover, I'm afraid Xiguo will soon perish." ——"No" means "no" or "no", which means "wrong". There is an idiom called "be willing to take the blame" or "take the blame of the world". That is to say: if you know it's wrong, you still have to work hard. You are willing to make mistakes and make the biggest mistakes in the world. What were the five "five wrongs" that Xiguo committed at that time? According to Zuo Zhuan, it is: "no virtue, no strength, no kinship, no words, no guilt." It means: they don't estimate whether their prestige is higher than each other's, they don't measure whether their strength is stronger than each other's, the monarchs of the two countries are from the same family name, they are originally relatives but not dear, they don't analyze the right and wrong of the words in dispute between the two sides, and they don't know their own mistakes. He also said, "if you commit five misdemeanors and attack people with knowledge, you will die." It means: if you make these five mistakes, you have to go out to fight against other countries. From this, you can see that the state of Xi is about to perish. Sure enough, soon the state of Xi was defeated by the state of Chu. This story is about the origin of the idiom "not measuring one's own strength", which is one of the "five wrongs" committed by Xiguo. In his poem Diao Zhang Ji, Han Yu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, said in the first few sentences: "Li Du's articles are brilliant. I don't know how to slander a group of stupid children! "It's ridiculous to shake a big tree." The meaning of these poems is: Li Bai's and Du Fu's poems and essays stand aloof, as if they shine on the poetic world. I didn't expect that a group of ignorant people should be so stupid and try to slander them. It's just like the ant trying to shake the big tree. It's ridiculous and beyond his capacity. These six poems are very famous and often quoted by later generations. Here, Han Yu spoke highly of Li Du's achievements in poetry, and at the same time gave a pungent rebuke to the contemptuous posterity who slandered Li Du. the idiom "beyond one's ability" is evolved from the two statements of "beyond one's ability" and "beyond one's ability". At the same time, both of them can be used alone, and they are also called "beyond one's ability", meaning that one does not measure one's own strength. People often use it to satirize people who are arrogant and do things without one's ability. The idiom "risking the world's great injustice" is derived from the expansion and change of "offending five wrongs (w ě I) and attacking people" in the story. Risk: make, ignore. The world: the whole world. Da Buwei: the biggest is not. It means to have made the biggest mistake in the world. Now it is often used to refer to doing bad things in blatant disregard of the opposition of people all over the world. in the spring and Autumn period, the weak Xi state launched a war against Zheng State and was defeated. Analysts believe that the country of Xi will be eliminated because the monarch of Xi does not consider his own virtues, does not correctly analyze the strength of the enemy and our two sides, cannot distinguish between the enemy and friends, and does not unite with neighboring countries. As a result, the country of Xi will be eliminated by the state of Chu before long.

Chinese PinYin : bù zì liàng lì