crane one 's neck and stand on tiptoe

crane one 's neck and stand on tiptoe

Stretch your neck and stand on tiptoe. It comes from Chuang Tzu's box, which describes the eagerness of hope.

Idiom explanation

Extension of head and neck. 2. Extended to admiration, desire. 3. Long neck. 4. Ancient place names. Raise your heel and stand on tiptoe. Heel, heel. Stretch your neck and stand on tiptoe. I'm looking forward to it.

Idioms and allusions

The same as "extending neck and pressing heel". Source: Chuang Tzu's box: "today, I have made the people raise their necks and heels, saying that" all the sages will win food and enjoy it. " Example: Master of Lu's spring and Autumn Annals: "the sage stands in the south, with the heart of loving and benefiting the people, and the world is full of his neck and his heel before the command is given." In Yu Ba Shu Xi, Sima Xiangru of Han Dynasty said, "if you raise your neck and your heel, you will be moved to the wind."

Discrimination of words

Usage: used as predicate and adverbial; with commendatory meaning, it refers to eager; structure: combined; synonyms: yanjingqiheel.