shake the head and wag the tail

shake the head and wag the tail

Shaking one's head with one's tail, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ǎ IW ě iy á ot ó u, which means happy or carefree. It comes from the book of songs of the Tang Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

The first volume of the book of songs of the three collections of the Tang Dynasty: "the unicorn is swift, the lion is towering, wagging his tail and shaking his head, and the mountain forest welcomes him."

Analysis of Idioms

Shaking one's head and shaking one's tail

Idiom usage

The fish shakes its head and shakes its tail in the water. It doesn't know how deep it is. The first discount of the story of the fish basket by Wu Mingshi in Yuan Dynasty