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Laojifutochi, a Chinese idiom, is pronounced L ǎ OJ ì f ú L ì, which means that although people are old, they are still ambitious. It comes from Cao Cao's walking out of Xiamen.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] to be old and strong, to be ambitious [antonym] to be old and healthy

Idiom usage

Subject predicate; predicate, attribute, object, clause; with commendatory meaning. Example 1. Use a flying dragon in the sky to help the old man. (notes of laoxuean (Volume I) by Lu You of Song Dynasty). 2. "Although the old man was not resting on his ambition, he was still in his old place when he was sailing against the wind." (Lu You and he Shuzhou Qi in Song Dynasty). 3. He was still working hard in scientific research in his later years. He was really a "old man with great ambition"! These are real people, people who will never grow old: the old man is full of ambition; the martyr is full of ambition in his old age. (text of high school Volume 5: what is a man by Zhao Xinshan). 5. After the letter was written, the literate members of the whole family made a "review" one by one. The younger son, who loves literature, proposed to add two lines of Cao Cao's poem: "the old man is full of ambition; the martyr is full of ambition in his old age." 6. He is still "old and ambitious" and continues to contribute to the reform, development and stability of our Prefecture through various means with his long-term accumulated rich knowledge and experience. 7. In your old age, you are still working hard and diligent in research. You are old and ambitious.

The origin of Idioms

The poem "walking out of the summer gate" written by Wei Cao of the Three Kingdoms States States: "the old steed is full of ambition."