A toad wants to eat a swan(lài há ma xiǎng chī tiān é ròu)

A toad wants to eat a swan

Toad wants to eat swan meat explanation: it refers to a person who has no self-knowledge and wants to get something impossible.

source

1. Shi Naian "outlaws of the marsh" 101: "I stay like this! How can a toad want to eat a swan 2. The eleventh chapter of a dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in the Qing Dynasty: "Ping'er said," toad wants to eat swan meat. "This is a bastard who has no human relationship. He has such an idea that he can't die easily!"

Examples

My little brother is only five or six feet above the ground. This tree is too high to reach. How can I pick him? It's "to.". The ninth chapter of Jing Hua Yuan by Li Ruzhen in Qing Dynasty

Related words

The near sense is out of its power, whimsical; the opposite is down-to-earth

Related Legends

There is an old legend: a long time ago, the queen mother held a peach party and invited all kinds of immortals. Toad fairy was also invited. Toad fairy meets goose fairy in the Queen's back garden, and he is fascinated by her beauty. He was scolded by the goose fairy and sued to the queen. The emperor's mother was so angry that she smashed the moon essence basin from Chang'e Moon Palace at toad fairy. The lower bound of the penalty is toad (toad). The moon essence turns into a golden light and invades the toad. The emperor's mother regretted that the moon essence basin had been smashed and a treasure had been lost. She ordered toad to return to Zhao after the end of his ordeal, so that he could be listed in the immortal class again and ordered Raytheon to supervise him. This is why toads want to eat swan meat. This is the origin.

Chinese PinYin : lài há ma xiǎng chī tiān é ròu