court defeat by fighting against overwhelming odds
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is t ó Ulu ǎ NJ ī sh í, which refers to self defeating. It's from Song dynasty sun Guangxian's North dream Suoyan.
The origin of Idioms
Sun Guangxian of the Song Dynasty, Volume 14 of Suoyan of the northern dream: "the so-called sheep are used to kill wolves. Fortunately, they don't use it. How can we expect it?"
Analysis of Idioms
A synonym: strike a stone with an egg
Idiom usage
Commendatory words are used as objects and attributives
court defeat by fighting against overwhelming odds
be not properly dressed as gentlemen should be - bù shān bù lǚ
Learn from the past and learn from the present - zhī wǎng jiàn jīn
visit the poor and the suffering - fǎng pín wèn kǔ
be in a fix the horns of a dilemma - jìn tuì wéi gǔ