very few

very few

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Li á Oli á OK ě sh ǔ, which means that there are few adjectives that can be counted. It's from the residence of people who have passed Zheng mountain by Liu Changqing of Tang Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Liu Changqing of the Tang Dynasty wrote: "the lonely orioles sing in the Apricot Garden, and only one dog barks in the peach garden."

Analysis of Idioms

There are only a few synonyms, but there are many antonyms

Idiom usage

It's easy to count the number of adjectives. But the minister, the minister, the one who resists the chastity and loyalties. (Fang Bao, Qing Dynasty, a letter on the rise of talented people by rectifying accumulated habits). Wang Shihan's poetics compiled in Qing Dynasty: "picking up gold in sand is very few." Ouyang mountain's Three Alleys: "then I carefully observed the few visitors nearby."