a single spark can start a prairie fire

a single spark can start a prairie fire

Cuohuoliaoyuan, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Cu ò Hu ǒ Li ǎ oyu á n, which means to set fire to a prairie fire and means that a small mess leads to a big disaster. It comes from Shen De Fu's Ye Huo Bian Bing Bu Xi Nan Zhu Jie in Ming Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Shen De Fu of the Ming Dynasty wrote in yehuo Bian · Bingbu · southwest Zhujie: "but recently, the Northeast used troops and gathered three generals Lou 100000. They didn't have Liao water, and they were sitting in a fire. It's almost impossible to compete."

Idiom usage

As an object or attribute; used to admonish