enough and to spare
enough and to spare
Yu Yu Yu is a Chinese idiom. Its pinyin is Chu ò y ǒ uy ú y ù, which describes a calm attitude. After also refers to the ability, the financial resources to be sufficient but has the surplus. From Mencius Gongsun Chou Xia.
The origin of Idioms
Mencius Gongsun Chou Xia, written by Mencius Ke in the Warring States Period: "if I have no official duty, and I have no words to blame, then I am not enough to advance and retreat, but I have plenty to spare." Zhao Qizhu: "the freedom of advance and retreat, isn't it enough to ease? Both Chuo and Yu are broad. "
Idiom usage
It is used as predicate and attributive to describe calm and unhurried attitude. Lu Xun's supplement to the collected works: a brief introduction to Chinese geology: "the natives only plough the stone fields, so they can make a living. In his book for Liu Jingzhou and Yuan Shangshu written by Wang can of Han Dynasty, it is said that "a benevolent monarch has great wisdom and plenty of surplus, so he should use the big to cover the small, and the superior to the inferior." According to the biography of Cai Yong in the book of the later Han Dynasty, "when there is nothing wrong with it, the gentry will slow down their admiration and sing jade for a step, which is more than enough." In northern history, Zhou Ji Shang Lun: "in the past Han Dynasty, Cao Gongcheng offered Mengchen and Jiafu; in Jin'an, Bo Dang, Wu Jian and Kuang he were honored. There is more than enough for us to study virtue and merit. " "In the ten years before the revolution of 1911, on the dangers of outsiders' right to seek our education," the "Tongwen library" was set up by the General Administration of the people's Republic of China. There were hundreds of students. Although they had no special talents and abilities, they were able to serve as diplomats, but they had more than enough to serve as interpreters. " Lu Xun's supplement to the collected works on Chinese geology: "the natives only plough the stone fields, so they have enough to make a living."
Analysis of Idioms
More than enough
enough and to spare