get the opposite of what one wants

get the opposite of what one wants

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ù y ì f ǎ Nb ì, which means to do a good job, but the result is bad. It comes from the differentiation of five classics.

Idiom explanation

He said that he wanted the better but the worse. If you want to do a good job, you end up spoiling it.

The origin of Idioms

1. Jin · Wang Ruoxu's "differentiation and confusion of five classics" said: "Yuan Kai not only framed the classics here, but also opposed the evils in Zuozhuan."

2. "The thunder is too fast to cover the ear", which is the saying of this strategist. At the beginning, it was not an even language, and the ancient and modern righteous scholars have not changed it. In the biography of Li Jing, song Zijing changed "Ji Lei" into "Zhen Ting" and "Yan" into "Sai", which is not only distorted, but also uneasy. Because of its disease, thunder can't cover its ears. How can it be taken from earthquake? If you can't cover it, why do you have time to plug it? This is the so-called desire for the good and against the bad.

The origin of Idioms

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