He is inflexible
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Hu ò Q ū B ù sh ē n, which means to bend like an inchworm and can't stretch; it refers to people who don't succeed. From preface to qitianxia manuscript.
The origin of Idioms
In the preface of Qi Tian Xia manuscript written by Dai Mingshi in Qing Dynasty, it is said that "the scholars of all the students also ate more poverty and suffered more hardship, but they were unable to stretch out."
Idiom usage
Combined; predicate; derogatory.
Chinese PinYin : huò qū bù shēn
He is inflexible
The rest of the chicken and the porpoise. jī tún zhī xī
daily increasing and monthly benefiting. rì zēng yuè yì
one must be thorough in exterminating an evil. chú è wù jìn
Change from the old to the new. gé xīn biàn jiù
The Golden Vase falls into the well. jīn píng luò jǐng