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Small minded and ambitious

Time: 2022-01-31 07:21:47 Author: ChinaWiki.net

Small minded and ambitious

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is x ī nxi ǎ ozh ì D à, which means to be careful and ambitious. From Huainanzi zhushuxun.

The origin of Idioms

Huainanzi · zhushuxun: "in the view of ordinary people, the heart wants small but the ambition wants big, the wisdom wants round but the action wants square, the ability wants many but the thing wants fresh."

Idiom usage

It refers to people's ambition.

Small minded and ambitious


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