collect bits of fur under the foxes ' forelegs to make a robe(jí yè wéi qiú)

collect bits of fur under the foxes ' forelegs to make a robe

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j í y è w é IQI ú, which means that although the skin under the fox's armpit is very small, it can be gathered to make a fur robe. The metaphor is that a little makes a lot. It's the same as "gathering armpits to make fur". It's from strange stories from a lonely studio.

Analysis of Idioms

A collection of armpits makes a fur

The origin of Idioms

Pu Songling's Liaozhaizhiyi Zizhi in the Qing Dynasty said that "collecting armpits for fury, blindly continuing the record of the nether world; writing in vain, only becoming a lonely and indignant book."

Idiom usage

As an object, predicate, object, metaphor, a little makes a lot of examples, so the content of newspaper cuttings changed from cutting other people's works to cutting one's own works, and there were several books. Press and publication daily, March 21, 1990

Chinese PinYin : jí yè wéi qiú