Stop eating when you're choking
The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Ji à NY à f è ISH í, which means to stop doing something when encountering occasional setbacks. It's from Li Yu's "casual love, voice and appearance, learning skills" in Qing Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
Li Yu of the Qing Dynasty wrote in his spare time, voice and appearance, learning skills: "it's said that we should stop eating when we meet with choking. Can we abandon books and officials?"
Analysis of Idioms
Give up eating for choking
Idiom usage
As an attributive, predicate, or object
Chinese PinYin : jiàn yē fèi shí
Stop eating when you're choking
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