Hunting in the East and fishing in the West

Hunting in the East and fishing in the West

Hunting in the East and fishing in the west, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is d ō ngli è x ī y ú, which means to dabble in everything but not specialize. It comes from "scolding the boy".

The origin of Idioms

Sun Qiao of the Tang Dynasty wrote in his book "scolding Tong Zhi": "it is more than enough to study, to hunt in the East and to fish in the west, and to know the beginning and the end roughly."

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate or object; used in dealing with affairs