Withered and sorrowful
It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is k ū y ú NSH ā ngsu ì, which means that a year's harvest will be affected if farming is not meticulous. It comes from Xunzi Tianlun.
Interpretation of Idioms
Work: weeding; year: mature.
The origin of Idioms
In Xunzi's Tianlun, it is said that "if you work hard, you will hurt your family, but if you work hard, you will lose your family." Han Ying's "Han Shi waizhuan" Volume 2: "dry farming hurts the grain, dry work hurts the year."
Withered and sorrowful
have grandiose aims but puny abilities - yǎn gāo shǒu dī