overweening

overweening

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin, is p ì n ì y ī Qi è, which means to describe someone who is very arrogant and looks down on anyone. It comes from the records of Daoxian official sea.

Analysis of Idioms

Arrogance and modesty

The origin of Idioms

Zhang Jixin of the Qing Dynasty wrote in the records of Daoxian official sea: "only when he is arrogant and doesn't want to be a servant, can he have the ability to grow up and look down on everything. Few famous officials in the world are in his eyes."

Idiom usage

Used as predicate, attributive, adverbial, etc. How can Mao Zhong, who was born as an official and slave, not be so proud of himself? Chapter 45 of the romance of the Tang Dynasty by Cai Dongfan and the track of cultural exchange by Ji Xianlin: "the reason why I quote so many words is not that foreigners boast that Chinese people have two eyes and are complacent and arrogant."