The blind man holds the candle
The blind man holds the candle, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is m á NgR é Nb ǎ zh ú, which means that the blind man holds the candle to light up. It's from the story of the old man.
Idiom explanation
The blind man lit up with a candle in his hand. Metaphor doesn't work.
The origin of Idioms
There are seven or five chapters in Yesou's Expositions: "every time the ancients regarded emperor Chen Shou as emperor Wei but not emperor Shu, they all talked about it blindly."
The blind man holds the candle
flunk the civil service examination - pù sāi lóng mén
distinguished air of elegance and coquetry - yí tài wàn fāng
spilled water cannot be gathered up - fù shuǐ nán shōu
regard a hazardous location as level ground -- no fear of danger and difficulties - shì xiǎn ruò yí
throw the helve after the hatchet - péi le fū rén yòu zhé bīng