The story of a snake swallowing an elephant?

Snake swallowing elephant is a Chinese word, which appeared many times in ancient Chinese. It means that a snake swallows an elephant, which is similar to human greed, just like a snake swallows an elephant. The word comes from Shan Hai Jing Hai Nei Nan Jing.

Extended information literature:

The snake swallows the elephant "Shan Hai Jing Hai Nei Nan Jing": "Bashu eats elephants and grows bones at the age of three." Later, he described greed as "snake swallowing elephant".

Yuan Liuzhi's divertimento "Being Righteous and Good, Going to the Supervision Department": "Then these two departments are like snakes swallowing elephants, and ten households are like wing tigers."

Qu Yuan's Tian Wen in Chu Ci of the Warring States Period: "What's the big deal if a snake swallows an elephant?"

Common collocation

The greedy snake swallowed the elephant;

A snake with insufficient heart swallows an elephant;

Reference Snake Swallows Elephants _ Baidu Encyclopedia