a miss is as good as a mile(miù yǐ qiān lǐ)

a miss is as good as a mile

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is mi ù y ǐ Qi ā NL ǐ, which means that the error is absurd to the extreme. Although the difference is very small at the beginning, the result will make a big mistake. It comes from Hua Gai Ji: "reading classics" in the 14th year.

The origin of Idioms

Lu Xun's Hua Gai Ji: "reading the classics" in the past 14 years: "opponents think that he really believes that reading the classics can save the country. It's a long way from being true!"

Idiom usage

Subject predicate type; as an object; derogatory; refers to a mistake, absurd to the extreme. In Wu Guan's the beauty of the bridge, there is "a little missing, a thousand miles away." In the book of rites, Jing Jie: "the book of changes says:" a gentleman should be careful when he starts, and if he is not as good as a millimetre, he will be thousands of miles away. " In the book of the Han Dynasty, volume 62, biography of Sima Qian, it is said that "the difference is a little, the fallacy is a thousand li. 」

Chinese PinYin : miù yǐ qiān lǐ