console oneself with false hopes

console oneself with false hopes

Shuo Mei Zhi Ke is a Chinese idiom. Its pinyin is Shu ō m é izh ǐ K ě, which means to use imagination to masturbate. The source is "Da Ma Fu".

The origin of Idioms

Li Qingzhao of the Song Dynasty wrote in his ode to Da Ma: "to quench thirst with plum blossoms is to make su run to the heart of competition; to fill hunger with cakes is to thank Teng Yu for his ambition."

Analysis of Idioms

Looking at the plum to quench thirst

Idiom usage

To act as an object or attributive