have quick wits idea occurred to one 's mind at the crucial moment(jí zhōng shēng zhì)

have quick wits idea occurred to one 's mind at the crucial moment

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j í zh ōēēì, which means to come up with a solution when the situation is urgent. It comes from the preface to 23 poems of He Wei.

Idiom explanation

Wisdom: resourcefulness. When it's urgent, suddenly come up with a way.

The origin of Idioms

Bai Juyi of Tang Dynasty wrote twenty three preface to He Wei's Poems: "today, if you use your strong points, if you are too embarrassed, you will be angry if you are an enemy, and if you are urgent, you will be wise."

Idiom usage

When I finished reading Yu Si, I suddenly thought of mangyuan more than ten thousand times, and immediately wrote a letter to my lovely cousin. Lu Xun's Thoughts on Tian Yuan at this critical moment, he got wisdom in a hurry and led us out of the woods.

Analysis of Idioms

Antonym: quick witted --- helpless, helpless synonym: quick witted

Chinese PinYin : jí zhōng shēng zhì