touch on sth. without going into it deeply

touch on sth. without going into it deeply

Dragonfly skims water, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Q ī NGT í ngdi ǎ nshu ǐ, which means that dragonflies touch the water with their tails when flying on the water. It refers to doing things superficially without going deep. From Qujiang.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] walk on the horse to see the flowers

The origin of Idioms

The second poem of Qujiang written by Du Fu of Tang Dynasty: "the butterfly wearing flowers can be seen deeply, and the dragonfly skimming water can be seen everywhere."

Idiom usage

subject predicate; predicate, object, attribute; derogatory. example song Yanshu's "Fisherman's pride" words: "green can cut off, red to bloom, dragonflies point waterfowl swim." Chapter 28 of qingwenkang's biography of heroes and Heroines: "two new people here come and go in the new house, like a nymphal butterfly wearing flowers; desire is desire to leave, like a dragonfly skimming water."