start off and finish

start off and finish

There is a beginning and an end, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ǒ ut ó uy ǒ UW ě I, meaning there is a beginning and an end. It refers to doing things to the end. It comes from the complete book of Zhu Zi, Analects of Confucius, gongyechang.

The origin of Idioms

Shi Naian of Ming Dynasty wrote the 22nd chapter of the complete story of the Water Margin: "but I can't say that he is a real man. He has a beginning and an end. Now I'll go to him when I get better."

Analysis of Idioms

There is a beginning and an end to it

Idiom usage

It can be used as predicate, attributive and complement. But I can't say that he is a real man. From beginning to end, I'll go to him when I get well. The 22nd chapter of Ming Shi Naian's all men of the marsh and Lao She's four generations in the same hall: "he wants to listen to the situation of his grandson's going to prison, so that he can combine with his own brave actions and become a long history."