Look for an eagle at the sight of a bullet

Look for an eagle at the sight of a bullet

It's a Chinese idiom. The Pinyin is Ji à nd à nqi ú è. When you see a bullet, you want to get the bird's roast meat. The metaphor is to estimate the actual effect too early. It's the same as "looking for an owl at the sight of a bullet". It's from Cheng ce of Xin Wei Hui, written by Zhang Juzheng of Ming Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Zhang Juzheng's the third part of Xinwei Huishi chengce in the Ming Dynasty: "it's to seek an eagle at the sight of a bullet, or it's not to reach the goal if you want to be quick; it's to throw a pearl to a magpie, or it's small but big."

Idiom usage

To act as a predicate, object, or attribute