able only to see the little patch of sky above(jǐng dǐ míng wā)

able only to see the little patch of sky above

Frog in the well, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j ǐ NGD ǐ m í NGW ā, meaning frog in the well. From watching the money slave.

The origin of Idioms

Yuan · anonymous's the first fold of money slave: "then your self-esteem is really a frog in the well."

Idiom usage

It refers to little knowledge.

Examples

As soon as I teach, I work hard, all of them are frogs in the bottom of the well. The first book of "Fengyun meeting" by Luo Guanzhong in Ming Dynasty

Chinese PinYin : jǐng dǐ míng wā