let small amounts accumulate
Zhu jicunji, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is zh ū J ī C ù NL ě I, which means to describe the accumulation bit by bit, also describes that things are not easy to complete. From Hou Ji Lu.
Analysis of Idioms
A little makes a lot; a little makes a lot; a little makes a lot; a little makes a lot; a little makes a lot
The origin of Idioms
Cold women's silk, accumulate. When Buwu comes, clouds and thunder rise. Zhao Delin's Hou Ji Lu (Volume 4)
Idiom usage
It's a combination; it's predicate and object; it's commendatory. Example: biography of lienvzhuan in the book of the later Han Dynasty: "this weaving was born from cocoon and formed on loom. It was a little bit tired, so tired that it became a piece." To learn, one must accumulate every inch. ——Zeng Guofan's Keqin Xiaowu
let small amounts accumulate
One's worth may be one's own ruin - shān mù zì kòu
Every inch of our troops is iron - chǐ bīng cùn tiě
It is a disgrace to let one's parents live in poverty in their old age. - píng qìng léi chǐ
one 's favour as high as the sky and thick as the earth - dài tiān lǚ dì