Chicken fight with goose
It's a metaphor for being noisy and at odds with each other.
[source]: Chapter 21 of a dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in the Qing Dynasty: "from now on, let's throw our hands away, so as to avoid fighting and make others laugh."
Idioms and allusions
[source]: Chapter 21 of a dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in the Qing Dynasty: "from now on, let's throw our hands away, so as to avoid fighting and make others laugh."
Discrimination of words
Idiom example: why do we fight like this? Synonym: chicken and goose fight? Degree of common use: General emotional color: commendatory word grammatical usage: as predicate; figurative quarrel idiom structure: combined generation time: Modern
Chinese PinYin : jī zhēng é dòu
Chicken fight with goose
dwell in benevolence and righteousness. jū rén yóu yì
make proper use of resources and enrich the lives of the people. lì yòng hòu shēng
nourish the living and bury the dead -- do one 's duty. sòng wǎng shì jū
The ape is sad and the crane is resentful. yuán bēi hè yuàn
endure hardships and be capable of hard work. chī kǔ nài láo
Zhu Yun breaks the threshold. zhū yún shé jiàn