to spoil sb . 's enthusiasm

to spoil sb . 's enthusiasm

It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is d à sh à f à NGJ à ng, which means to damage the beautiful scenery. It's a metaphor for spoiling interest. It comes from miscellaneous compilation by Li Shangyin in Tang Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Li Shangyin of Tang Dynasty listed "drinking from Panasonic" and "burning fire under the moon" as "killing scenery".

Idiom usage

In a beautiful park, birds are singing and flowers are fragrant, but there is a pile of rubbish on the side of the road. It's really a waste of scenery.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] apathetic, disillusioned and return [antonym] exuberant

Idiom story

Li Shangyin, a poet of Tang Dynasty, was very talented. His poems exposed and criticized the dark reality and official corruption at that time. In zazuan, he listed some things that were very harmful to the scenery, such as "washing feet in clear spring, drying flowers in the sun, setting up a tower behind a mountain, burning Qin and boiling crane, sipping tea to flowers and drinking from Panasonic." These were all disappointing things at that time.