impossible

impossible

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Xi é sh ā NCH ā oh ǎ I, which means crossing the North Sea with Mount Tai. It means doing something absolutely impossible. It comes from Mencius, the first king of Liang Hui.

Idiom explanation

Coerce: coerce, clamp; 刱: surpass, stride.

The origin of Idioms

"Mencius · Liang Hui Wang Shang:" take Mount Tai to surpass the North Sea, the speaker said: 'I can't. "You can't be honest."

Idiom usage

It has a derogatory meaning. Can the desire, by means of clouds, return to heaven, and carry the spirit of mountains and seas? Liang Qichao's young China theory in Qing Dynasty and Lu Xiangsheng's book with a certain person in Ming Dynasty: "a certain person has one body and seven provinces on his shoulder, which is different from the difficulty of crossing mountains and seas."