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Big construction, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is d à x à NGT à m à, which means to build houses on a large scale. From Rong Zhai San Bi.
Idiom explanation
Xing: establishment; civil engineering: Construction Engineering.
The origin of Idioms
Hongmai's Rongzhai SANBI (Volume 11) in Song Dynasty said: "the treacherous and sycophantic minister, who had no idea of emperor Zhenzong's Fu Duan, built a large-scale construction project, and thought that the Palace should be built in the Qing Dynasty."
Analysis of Idioms
Labor costs money
Idiom usage
In a derogatory sense, it refers to building a large number of houses. example since the king of spirit had returned, he was ashamed of his useless work, but he wanted to boast about the princes with the material system. The 67th chapter of the chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty written by Feng Menglong in Ming Dynasty and the biography of Li ShouZhen in the history of the Old Five Dynasties in Han Dynasty: "it is the first place of the capital to build a large scale of buildings, and to govern more than one year old." In Chapter 120 of the romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong of the Ming Dynasty, he recommended Du Yu's old general to offer a new plan to surrender SUN Hao to Unification: he also built a large-scale construction project to build Zhaoming palace, which ordered the officials of the civil and military forces to go into the mountains to pick up wood; he also called the warlock Shang Guang, which ordered divination to ask about the affairs of the world. In 1983, a brief introduction to yuanjiashan said, "after Yuan Shangshu (yuan Keli) returned to Li, he built a large-scale construction project and built luzu temple to restore it."
be busy at putting up installations
be all eyes and all ears - yǎn guān sì lù,ěr tīng bā fāng
do away with all fetishes and superstitions - pò chú mí xìn
climb trees to catch water from a flint - déng mù qiú yú
with bright windows and clean tables - chuāng míng jī jìng
the fallen grass and sinking cesspool - zhuì yīn luò hùn