glance over things hurriedly

glance over things hurriedly

Paomaguanhua, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is p ǎ om ǎ Gu ā nhu ā, which means to compare and roughly watch. It's from "after the entrance examination.".

The origin of Idioms

Meng Jiao of Tang Dynasty wrote a poem after he was admitted to the imperial examination: "he is proud of his horse's hoof disease and can see all the flowers in Chang'an in one day."

Idiom usage

Take a rough look at it. It was evening after he had read the poetic play. Guo Moruo's Wanyin