Idioms Gallery

井 (well) 底 (under) 之 ('s) 蛙 (frog) How small is your world view? Once upon a time, there lived a little frog who was extremely proud of ...

喋 (twitter) 喋 (twitter) 不 (not) 休 (rest) It certainly has become an age of Twitter. Non-stop chatter, babble, chirp, twitter. It is unlikely...

債 (debt) 多(much) 不 (not) 愁 (worry) Too big to fail? Too many people in the same boat? What's happened to responsibility ? False hope...

風 (wind) 前 (before) 之 (') 塵 (dust) or 風中之塵 風 (wind) 中 (midst) 之 (') 塵 (dust) *** I close my eyes, only for a moment, and the moment...

芝 (herb) 蘭 (orchid) 之 ('s) 交 (association) A profusion of fragrance accompanies fine friendships. 靈芝 , ("immortal fungus" or ...

Many visceral reasons you cry - the face of an abandoned puppy, a baby calling out for his mommy, little hungry faces in foreign lands and r...

弱 (weak) 肉 (meat) 强 (strong) 食 (feed) Are we encouraging the survival of the weaklings? "Corporate Darwinism for Big 3 Auto? ... Consid...

對 (before) 牛 (cow) 彈 (play) 琴 (piano) 琴 can refer to other musical instruments, mostly string instruments 三角琴 grand piano What do you supp...

飛 (fly) 蛾 (moth) 赴 (approach) 火 (fire) simplified, 飞蛾赴火 Thus hath the candle singd the moath... A moth with a death wish. *** “The construct...

錦 (silk) 衣 (apparel) 玉 (jade) 食 (food) The Golden Gate Bridge constantly attracts quite a few show-offs. Sailing the San Francisco Bay last...

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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (溫家寶/ 温家宝) happens to be a poet. (How cool is that?) Contrast Wen's optimistic use of 响起春雷 with; Prison an...

矯 (straighten) 角 (horn) 殺 (kill) 牛 (bull) So you do end up burning the house to roast the pig, even if burning the house down is the last ou...

蝸 (snail) 角 (horn) 之 ('s) 爭 (fight) The Qi (齊) dynasty broke a pact made with the Wei (魏) dynasty, forcing angry Wei to consider a stri...

蓋 (cover) 世 (world) 之 (of) 才 (talent) "Tara Donovan Among 2008 MacArthur “Genius Grant” Winners CHICAGO—The MacArthur Foundation has an...

以 (with) 熱 (heat) 治 (rule) 熱 (heat) So... Whatever happened to glorious, glorious, Persia? *** "Iran ready to fight fire with fire -- T...

竭 (drain) 澤 (pond) 而 (and) 漁 (fish) Who would be foolish enough to drain the pond to get to the fish? *** "Are New spapers Doomed? -- ...

走 (run) 馬 (horse) 看 (see) 山 (mountain) You are running a mile a minute. You are missing all the details. Mais le diable est dans les détai...

危 (perilous) 機 (machine) 一 (one) 髮 (hair) Imagine a situation where the entire machinery is hanging by one single hair. It might or might n...