hesitate to discard sth.(qì zhī kě xī)

hesitate to discard sth.

It's a pity to abandon it. The Chinese idiom, Pinyin, is Q ì zh ī K ě x ī, which means that if you eat it, it doesn't taste good. It's a pity to throw it away. Its extended meaning is that certain interests are too small. If we fight for them, we don't have much meaning. It's a pity to give them up. It comes from the annals of the Three Kingdoms, Wei annals and Wudi Ji.

The origin of Idioms

Pei Songzhi quoted Jiuzhou spring and Autumn Annals in the annals of the Three Kingdoms, Wei annals and Wudi annals: "it's a pity to abandon the chicken ribs of a husband, but there's no income from eating them. It's better than Hanzhong to know the king's desire."

Idiom usage

Such a direct drinking water system makes people worry about using it, but it's a pity to abandon it. the decoration problem Ms. Huang faces is just like chicken ribs. It's tasteless to eat and a pity to give up. This has led some DC members to call them "chicken ribs", which are tasteless and a pity to abandon. However, banks always feel it a pity to abandon this "fat meat". however, some owners said that they were worried about using the "purified water direct diversion system", but it was a pity to abandon it. Senior high school examination oriented education makes Chinese education utilitarian or marginalized, and Chinese has become a chicken rib which is tasteless to eat and a pity to abandon. However, not all bottom traders can be prosperous, especially in areas where business is not prosperous, those bottom traders often become "chicken ribs" which are a pity to discard. the flower of silk stockings in Japan was originally created by ingenious design of silk stockings, which were discarded and left useless. It gradually became popular in Japan and became a new favorite of many housewives.

Idiom story

Cao Cao and Liu Bei faced each other in Hanzhong, and the two armies were at a stalemate. Cao Cao was worried when he saw that he could not win because of the continuous rain and the exhaustion of food and grass. At this time, the soldiers came to ask for the command at night. Cao Cao was eating chicken ribs in the bowl, and he casually replied: chicken ribs! When the command "chicken ribs" was sent to Yang Xiu, he encouraged the soldiers to pack up and prepare to withdraw. XiahouDun asked why. Yang Xiu said: chicken ribs, it's a pity to discard them, but it's tasteless to eat them. Today, the prime minister will not be able to win. I'm afraid that people will laugh at him. Tomorrow, he will order his troops to withdraw. So everybody believed it. When Cao Cao knew about this, he cut off Yang Xiu's head in the name of bewitching the army. This is the allusion about chicken ribs.

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: taste like chicken ribs

Chinese PinYin : qì zhī kě xī