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Building a house under the roof, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is w à Xi à Ji à w à. It's from a new account of the world literature.
The origin of Idioms
Liu Yiqing of the Southern Dynasty, Song Dynasty, wrote in the book "new sayings of the world · literature": "this is an ear built under the house."
Idiom usage
Complex sentence; predicate, attribute; derogatory. In Yan Zhitui's family precepts of Yan Family in the Northern Qi Dynasty, the following is an example: "the principle is important, the matter is complex, the model is effective, the house is built under the house, and the ear is used on the bed."
Idiom story
During the Jin Dynasty, Yu zhongchu wrote Yangdu Fu to Yu Liang. Yu Liang tried his best to raise his value, which is comparable to Zhang Heng's Erjing Fu and Zuo Si's Sandu Fu. So everyone scrambled to copy. Taifu Xie an thinks that the comments are too high. It's like building a house under the roof, imitating other people's works everywhere, and the content is very boring.
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Every inch is worth every penny - cùn liáng zhū chēng
express the emotion of missing to remote relatives - yì shǐ méi huā
roundness inside but squareness outside - wài fāng nèi yuán
thieves and police work together , as the cat and the rat sleep together - māo shǔ tóng rǔ
have no appreciation of a thing 's importance - bù zhī qīng zhòng