hide one 's capacities and hide one 's time

hide one 's capacities and hide one 's time

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is t ā Ogu ā ngy ǐ NJ ì, which means to hide talent without exposing it. It comes from the biography of Lingying by Wu Mingshi in Tang Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

In the biography of Lingying written by Wu Mingshi in Tang Dynasty, it is said that "the first ancestor of my concubine was ashamed to share heaven and worry about his future troubles. He led his family and hid his light. He changed his surname to avoid hatred in an village, Zhenning County, Xinping."

Idiom usage

As predicate and attributive, it can be used as an example to deal with affairs. Man Tingfang's poem by Jin and Ma Yu