a capable man pretends to be stupid in order to avoid jealousy

a capable man pretends to be stupid in order to avoid jealousy

It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is d à Qi à oru à Zhu à, which means that a really smart person doesn't show himself. On the surface, he seems clumsy. From Laozi.

Idiom explanation

Clumsy: clumsy. It refers to a really smart person who doesn't show himself and seems clumsy on the surface.

The origin of Idioms

Chapter 45 of Lao Tzu: "be outspoken as if you are unyielding, clever as if you are clumsy, and discerning as if you are slow." Wang Bi's note: "great cleverness is based on nature; it is not made as heresy; so it is clumsy."

Idiom usage

It can be said that it is rare for the language to reach such a state of "big sound but few sound".