know the flavour of sth. by taking one sample(cháng dǐng yī luán)

know the flavour of sth. by taking one sample

Ch á NGD ǐ ngy ī Lu á n is a Chinese idiom. It means that if you taste a piece of meat in the cauldron, you can know the taste of the whole cauldron. It comes from the spring and Autumn Annals of the Lu family.

The origin of Idioms

In Lu's spring and Autumn Annals, Chajin: "taste a pot of meat and know the taste of a wok, the tone of a tripod."

The use of Idioms

According to some of the examples, we can infer that there is a group of high-class princes and grandsons to ask for help, and there are also those low-class men who are eager to taste the same thing. The first chapter of Wu Jianren's twenty years of witnessing the strange situation in Qing Dynasty

Analysis of Idioms

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Chinese PinYin : cháng dǐng yī luán