a drop in the bucket

a drop in the bucket

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is C ā NGH ǎ iy ī L í n, which means a piece of fish scale in the sea. From the cold eye view.

It's a scale in the ocean

C ā NGH ǎ iy ī L í n

[interpretation] a fish scale in the sea; the metaphor is very small.

[source] Chapter 7 of cold eye: "in order to redress the injustice of a dead common people, I offended a rich young man first. I followed the black whip and black cap with my blue lamp and yellow scroll for the past ten years. It was like a piece of cloud in Wushan mountain. In an instant, I was involved in the land of nothingness."