A dumb man's dream

A dumb man's dream

A Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is y ǎ Z ǐ Tu ō m è ng, which means to refer to someone who has something to say or is unable to say. It's from watching money slaves by Zheng Tingyu of Yuan Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Yuan · Zheng Tingyu's the third fold of "see the money slave": "made a dumb dream, said no to this handicap."

Analysis of Idioms

Synonyms: a mute gets a dream, a mute seeks a dream, and a mute dreams

Idiom usage

As an object or attribute; used in figurative sentences