give up eating for fear of choking(yīn yē fèi shí)

give up eating for fear of choking

Chinese idiom, Pinyin y ī NY ē f è ISH í, originally means that because someone chokes to death when eating, he wants to make the world stop eating. It means that if something goes wrong or is afraid of going wrong, you just don't do it. It comes from the spring and Autumn Annals of the Lu family, dangbing.

Citation interpretation

Waste: stop. It refers to abandoning big things because they are small or simply not doing things because they are afraid of doing wrong. In the spring and Autumn Annals of the Lu family, dangbing soldiers: it is against the law to choke the dead and ban food in the world. It's ridiculous to want the world not to eat because someone chokes to death. Lu Zhi of Tang Dynasty wrote: "in the past, there were people who gave up eating because of choking, and people who were afraid of drowning and drowned themselves. It's not too much to worry about rectifying and preventing trouble." In the biography of Li Xian in the history of Ming Dynasty, it is said that "if you are worried about satiety but don't lend money, if you sit and watch the people die, you will stop eating because of choking." The 21st chapter of Wu Jianren's twenty years of witnessing the strange situation in Qing Dynasty: "if posterity does not ask for the reason, they all believe in the law, won't they stop eating for choking?" Xue Fucheng's diaries of four countries in the Qing Dynasty, the first day of April in the 16th year of Guangxu, said: "if we say that it is not easy to learn to walk, but we can't overcome others in the end, we should stop eating because of choking." Lu Longqi's Diary of sanyutang in the Qing Dynasty said: "there are two difficulties in the realm of" I can't think twice about the past ". One is that I can recover from the past by neglecting to follow the rules; the other is that I can't see the past even though I want to change my mistakes. For example, I can't correct my mistakes because of choking." "The responsibility for improvement lies with us. We should not stop eating because of choking."

Idiom usage

Specific usage

It is formal, attributive, predicate, object and derogatory. If posterity does not ask the reason, they will all believe in the law, won't they? The 21st chapter of Wu Jianren's twenty years of witnessing the strange situation in Qing Dynasty

Other uses

Correct pronunciation: choke, can't be read as Yang distinguish form: choke, can't write "swallow". allegorical sayings: long worms drill through cracks in the ground riddle: fish bones get stuck in the throat and don't eat fish

Analysis of Idioms

Synonyms: open the abdomen, lose the big, cut the feet to fit the shoes, cut the toes to fit the shoes

Idiom story

A rich man put on a banquet, and rowed his fist during the banquet. An old man got stuck in his neck because the beef was not chewed. He was sweating and rolled his eyes. People tried to find a way to make the old man toss around. The old man was so angry that he spat out the beef. The rich man asked you to go home. He said that he would never eat again.

Chinese PinYin : yīn yē fèi shí