Stretch your head and shrink your neck
Stretching one's head and shrinking one's neck is a Chinese idiom, pronounced sh ē NT ó usu ō J ǐ ng, which means to describe an air of insight in the dark. It's from the body of the able man.
Analysis of Idioms
To explore the brain
Idiom usage
Used as an attributive or adverbial
The origin of Idioms
Zhai Hao of Qing Dynasty wrote "the body of capable people": the goose extends its neck while the turtle shrinks its head
Chinese PinYin : shēn tóu suō jǐng
Stretch your head and shrink your neck
display one 's skill to the full. dà xiǎn shēn shǒu
a girl of age should be married. nǚ dà xū jià
like " cutting and grinding " stones -- to learn from each other. rú qiē rú cuō
warning taken from the overturned cart in front. qián chē zhī jiàn