Chicken fight with goose

Chicken fight with goose

It's a metaphor for being noisy and at odds with each other.

[source]: Chapter 21 of a dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in the Qing Dynasty: "from now on, let's throw our hands away, so as to avoid fighting and make others laugh."

Idioms and allusions

[source]: Chapter 21 of a dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in the Qing Dynasty: "from now on, let's throw our hands away, so as to avoid fighting and make others laugh."

Discrimination of words

Idiom example: why do we fight like this? Synonym: chicken and goose fight? Degree of common use: General emotional color: commendatory word grammatical usage: as predicate; figurative quarrel idiom structure: combined generation time: Modern