Riding on oxen and looking for oxen

Riding on oxen and looking for oxen

Riding a bull and looking for a cow, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Q í Ni ú m ì Ni ú, which means that things are here and they are looking everywhere. It comes from the Song Dynasty's Shi Daoyuan's biography of lights in Jingde, master Da'an of Fuzhou.

Idiom usage

As a predicate, attributive, clause; used of people

Analysis of Idioms

Looking for a donkey, looking for a horse

The origin of Idioms

In the Song Dynasty, Shi Daoyuan's "biography of lights in Jingde · Da'an Zen master in Fuzhou" said, "a teacher is built in a hundred feet, and the ceremony asks: if a scholar wants to know Buddhism, which one is it? Baizhang said, "it's like riding an ox looking for an ox."

Idiom explanation

The original metaphor is to find a more satisfying job while occupying a position. Now I have many metaphors. I'm here and I'm looking for them everywhere. It is the same as "riding a donkey and looking for a donkey".