a single spark can start a prairie fire
Cuohuoliaoyuan, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Cu ò Hu ǒ Li ǎ oyu á n, which means to set fire to a prairie fire and means that a small mess leads to a big disaster. It comes from Shen De Fu's Ye Huo Bian Bing Bu Xi Nan Zhu Jie in Ming Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
Shen De Fu of the Ming Dynasty wrote in yehuo Bian · Bingbu · southwest Zhujie: "but recently, the Northeast used troops and gathered three generals Lou 100000. They didn't have Liao water, and they were sitting in a fire. It's almost impossible to compete."
Idiom usage
As an object or attribute; used to admonish
Chinese PinYin : cuò huǒ liǎo yuán
a single spark can start a prairie fire
the means of the people have been used up. mín qióng cái kuì
could not communicate between man and woman. shòu shòu bù qīn
till the seas dry up and the rocks decay. hǎi hé shí làn