Speaking of ruining things.

There are many four-word idioms to describe the waste of good things or delicious things, such as steaming pears, burning pianos and cooking cranes, spending money like water, wasting money, wasting money, being overqualified, extravagance and waste, and fighting for luxury in Shichong.

First, extravagance and waste

Explanation: poor: extremely; Luxury: luxury. Extreme luxury, try to enjoy it. Describe extravagance and waste, debauchery and corruption.

From: Lu Kangchuan's Book of the Later Han Dynasty: "The last days are dominated by decline, which is extremely extravagant."

Vernacular Chinese: "The end of the world is degraded, extremely extravagant and decadent."

Grammar: combination; As predicate and attribute; derogatory sense

Synonyms are: eating in large pieces, nourishing meat in the mountains, dissolute and shameless, arrogant and extravagant, and greedy for money.

The antonyms are hard work, frugality, hunger, hardship and simplicity.

Second, overqualified.

Description: Use large materials as small materials. Metaphor improper use, a waste of talent.

From: Jin Shichong's "On Xu Chao": "When you hear that a sage is in office, you will have a group of talents, be an official, and have a proper weight and prepare for a big position. Therefore, you will not restrain your talents and make them small; Small materials are extremely divided and have different positions for a long time. "

Vernacular: "I heard that saints are in power, so all materials should be given, and officials can be competent and important." Make full use of what has been prepared, so that you can live in a small position without constraining big talents; Xiao Mu is extremely divided and does not match the material level for a long time. "

Example: Overqualified, looking over and sighing, Guan Zhong, Xiao He, actually doing business. -Song Luyou's poem "Writing a Dynasty with a Heart in Peace"

Grammar: subject-predicate type; As objects and attributes; Refers to improper personnel arrangement

Synonyms include "lack of talents", "Niu Ding roast chicken", "cutting chicken with a cow's knife" and "beating sparrows with pearls".

Antonym: Give full play to your talents, give full play to your material, and kill the chicken with one knife.

Third, steamed pears.

Description: Steamed pears are edible. Metaphor does not know the goods. Spoil good things in a muddle.

From: Xiao Yudi, Shi Shuo Xin Yu, written by Liu Yiqing of the Southern Dynasties: "Every time people in Huannan County are unhappy, they say angrily,' You want to mourn for pears, should you steam them again?' "

Vernacular: "Every time Huannan County sees others unhappy, it gets angry and says,' If you take Aijia pears, will you steam them?' "

Grammar: subject-predicate type; As objects and attributes; derogatory sense

Synonyms of burning Qin and boiling crane

Antonyms have a unique vision.

Fourth, burn the harp and cook the crane.

Commentary: burn the harp as firewood and cook the crane to eat. Metaphor spoils beautiful things.

From: Song Huzai's "Previous Collection of Tiaoxi Fishing Hidden Congs" is quoted from Xiqing Poetry: "One Mountain Miscellany" has dozens of titles and is full of funny articles. The first is to kill the scenery, which means that the spring is full, and the building is on the back of the mountain, burning the piano and cooking the cranes. "

Vernacular: There are dozens of titles in One Mountain Miscellany, probably because Wang Wen is funny. The first is to spoil the scenery, wash the feet of the clear spring, carry the mountain Gai Lou, burn the piano for firewood and cook the crane. "

Ex.: There has never been a way to burn a harp and cook a crane, but I cherish jade and incense. -Feng Ming magnum "wake up the world" volume 3.

Grammar: combination; As a predicate; Metaphor spoils beautiful things.

Synonyms are burning a harp crane, building a house on the back of a mountain, burning a harp and cooking a crane, drinking tea on flowers, and steaming pears to ruin the scenery.

Antonym Zhao Wu

Five, spend money like water.

Explanation: Wave: Scattering. Spend money like water. Describe extreme extravagance and waste.

From: Song Zhou Mi's Qidong unofficial history Volume II: "Spending money like running water, managing officials like leisure."

Vernacular: "Spend money like dirt and treat officials like idlers."

Example: At that time, I had no choice but to be arrogant, spending money like water and treating money as an illegitimate thing. -Qing Li garbo "officialdom in the sky" back to the 30th.

Grammar: subject-predicate type; As a predicate; derogatory sense

Synonyms are luxury, recklessness, extravagance, profligacy, spending a lot of money, spending millions.

The antonym loves money, is thrifty and thrifty.

References:

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