look at the sky through a tube
Chinese idioms, Pinyin read y ò nggu ǎ Nku ī Ti ā n, meaning to see the sky from the tube; metaphor narrow-minded, short-sighted. From Chuang Tzu autumn water.
The origin of Idioms
Chuang Tzu's autumn water: "it's not too small to use a tube to peep at the sky and an awl to point to the earth." Cheng xuanyingshu: "for example, you can see the sky from a perspective, and you can see the width of the sky."
Idiom usage
As an object or attribute; used in figurative sentences.
Chinese PinYin : yòng guǎn kuī tiān
look at the sky through a tube
shiver all over though not cold. bù hán ér lì
Good fortune is hard to give up. shàn cái nán shě
The snipe and the clam fight, and the fisherman gains. yù bàng xiāng zhēng,yú wēng