get the cat and lose the cow(zhēng māo diū niú)
get the cat and lose the cow
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is zh ē NGM ā ODI ū Ni ú, meaning to fight for the cat and lose the cow. It's a metaphor for being greedy for small things and losing big ones. It comes from the lamp on the wrong road by Li Lvyuan in Qing Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
The seventieth chapter of Li Luyuan's Qiludeng in the Qing Dynasty: "it's really about winning the cat and losing the cow."
Analysis of Idioms
In the near sense, the small loses the big and the competing for the chicken loses the sheep
Idiom usage
As predicate, object, attribute
Chinese PinYin : zhēng māo diū niú
get the cat and lose the cow
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