like an egg knocking itself against a stone
As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is Ru ò Lu ǎ NT ó ush í, which means that if you don't measure yourself, you will fail. It is the same as "hitting a stone with an egg". From the annals of criminal law of the Han Dynasty.
Analysis of Idioms
A synonym: strike a stone with an egg
The origin of Idioms
Criminal law annals of the Han Dynasty: "deceiving Yao with Jie is like throwing a stone at a egg. How lucky is the husband!"
Idiom usage
To act as a predicate or attributive
Chinese PinYin : ruò luǎn tóu shí
like an egg knocking itself against a stone
one is raised from the status of a concubine to that of a principal wife. bì zuò fū rén
Better a broken jade than a broken one. nìng kě yù suì,bù néng wǎ quán
the country is defeated and the home lost. guó pò jiā wáng
Good is rewarded with good and evil with evil. shàn yǒu shàn bào,è yǒu è bào