reach for what is beyond one 's grasp

reach for what is beyond one 's grasp

Chinese idiom, pronounced h à og à ow à Yu à n, means to pursue too high and too far away from reality. It comes from the biography of Cheng Hao.

Notes on Idioms

Good: like; high: too high; focus: pursuit; far: too far.

The origin of Idioms

According to Cheng Hao's biography, the first biography of Daoism in the history of the Song Dynasty, "the sick scholars are disgusted with the inferiority of the near, but aim for the high and far, and there is no success in death."