do a seemingly clever thing which turns out to be a foolish one instead

do a seemingly clever thing which turns out to be a foolish one instead

He tried to show off his cleverness, but he did something stupid.

Pinyin

nòngqiǎochéngzhuō

explain

I tried to show off my intelligence, but I did something stupid. Qiao: smart. Clumsy: clumsy.

Classics

Song Dynasty Huang Tingjian's Ode to Zhuo Xuan: self defeating and self defeating. (Ming Dynasty) Xu Zhonglin's the romance of the gods Chapter 56: the child is the daughter of the boudoir. It's all the father's faux pas.

Discrimination

Near meaning: to paint a snake and add to its fullness, to do more than one thing, to get twice the result with twice the effort, and to backfire. antonym: just right. usage: combined; predicate; derogatory; used in critical situations.

allusion

Sun Zhiwei was a famous painter in the Northern Song Dynasty. Once, Shouning temple in Chengdu asked him to draw a painting of Jiuyao for the temple. After he finished the sketch, he went out because he had something to do, so he called his disciples and said, "I have finished the outline of this painting, and the rest of the coloring work is for you to continue. You must do it carefully." after the teacher left, the disciples were ready to paint, but suddenly they found that the crystal bottle held by the servant boy of mercury Bodhisattva in the picture was empty. A student said: "the teacher usually draws a bottle, always draws a bunch of bright flowers on the bottle, this time may forget to draw in a hurry, let's draw it." Everyone agreed with him, so he carefully painted a pink lotus on the crystal bottle. The next day, sun Zhiwei returned. When he saw a lotus flower in the bottle held by mercury Bodhisattva's attendants, he roared angrily: "in the Taoist Scripture, it is said that the crystal bottle of mercury Bodhisattva is not used for flower arrangement, but a treasure used to subdue demons and water. There are no flowers in the vase at all. If you add flowers, it will not be a divine object, but an ordinary vase. You are self defeating The disciples bowed their heads in horror.