play for peanuts(dǎ xiǎo suàn pán)

play for peanuts

Abacus, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is d ǎ Xi ǎ OSU à NP á n, which means to be careful in small places. It comes from Li Baojia's officialdom in the Qing Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Li Baojia of the Qing Dynasty wrote in his officialdom: some people who can do miscalculations, for example, have always been filial to one hundred Liang, but now they only need one hundred yuan

Analysis of Idioms

Antonym take the overall situation into consideration

Idiom usage

In fact, it's useless to think only of one's own interests, to make small calculations, to use little wisdom, to be bureaucratic and to be a Q-type person. Mao Zedong's principles, methods and future against Japanese attack

Chinese PinYin : dǎ xiǎo suàn pán