Look for the owl
It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is Ji à nd à nqi ú Xi à o, which means that when you see a bullet, you want to get the roast meat of a bird. It comes from Zhuangzi's Qi Wu Lun.
The origin of Idioms
Chuang Tzu's Qi Wu Lun: "and the female also plans early. When she sees the egg, she asks for the time and night, and when she sees the bullet, she asks for the owl to fry."
Idiom usage
To estimate the actual effect prematurely. Example: because you are looking for dodder, you are looking for owls. Gu Yanwu, Qing Dynasty
Chinese PinYin : jiàn dàn qiú háo
Look for the owl
attend to the trivialities and neglect the fundamentals. bèi běn qū mò
man of great courage looks like a coward. dà yǒng ruò qiè
Read more than ten thousand books. dú shū pò wàn juàn