top-heavy(tóu zhòng jiǎo qīng)

top-heavy

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is t ó uzhen ǎǎ OQ ī ng, which means that the head is swollen and the feet are weak; it describes physical discomfort; it also means that the foundation is not firm. It comes from Shi nodou, the martyr's Revenge in Houguan county.

The origin of Idioms

In Ming Dynasty, a natural old man named Shi nodou, a martyr in Houguan County, said: "his drinking capacity was not good, and he gradually felt that his head was heavy and his feet were light."

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] tiger head and snake tail [antonym] deep rooted

Idiom usage

It has a derogatory meaning. The reed on the wall should be shallow in the bottom, and the bamboo shoots in the mountains should be thick in the mouth and hollow in the abdomen. Mao Zedong's "transforming our learning" and song Daoyuan's "Jingde Zhuandeng Lu · Chengyuan Zen master" said: "the monk said:" how is it when (FISH) goes down the Bitan? "The teacher said:" the head is heavy, the tail is light. " Shi Naian's seventy first chapter of the outlaws of the Marsh: "I saw these 15 people, head heavy and light, looking at each other face to face, all of them fell down." "Yu Shi Ming Yan. Vol. 40. Shen Xiaoxia meets his teacher:" it's because of helplessness. I'm so stuffy that I take a few breaths in a row. If you don't want to eat it, when you eat it, you feel that the sky is down and the ground is up. The walls are all turning round and heavy, and you can't stand. "

Chinese PinYin : tóu zhòng jiǎo qīng