to eat in different ways -- different ways of aggression
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j ī NGT ū NC á NSH í, which means to swallow like a whale and gradually encroach like a silkworm eating mulberry leaves; it means to swallow by various means. From "Ying Yi Bao Tu".
The origin of Idioms
According to Wang Tao's Ying Yi Bao Tu in the Qing Dynasty, "if the earth and the three lands are devoured by the cetaceans of Russia, then the land and the three seas will expand the territory for thousands of miles."
Idiom usage
It has a derogatory meaning. example the whale swallows the silkworm and goes back on its promise. The enemy is weak and friends are strong. ——Liu Yazi's "humiliation" poem.
to eat in different ways -- different ways of aggression
Be modest and able to bear the talent - jīn néng fù cái
sit and prattle about the general principle - zuò ér lùn dào
instructions from one 's father - shī tíng zhī xùn
be one's unshirkable responsibility - zé wú páng dài
Hope is the most important thing - wù yǐ xī wéi guì
as a man sows , so let him reap - yīn guǒ bào yìng