One's worth may be one's own ruin

One's worth may be one's own ruin

Shanmu Zikou is a Chinese idiom. Its pinyin is sh ā nm ù Z ì K ò u, which means that the trees on the mountain are cut down because they have grown into useful wood. Metaphor is not free from disaster because it is useful. It comes from Zhuangzi, the world.

Analysis of Idioms

Zhimu first attack

Idiom usage

Be used as an attributive; be used to avoid disaster

The origin of Idioms

Chuang Tzu's the world: "the mountain and the wood are self aggressors, but the fire is self frying."