Pinyin: Tang lang bǔ Chinese

Commentary: Mantis is about to catch cicadas, but he doesn't know that the yellowbird behind him is about to eat cicadas. Metaphor is short-sighted, only thinking about calculating others, but I didn't expect others to calculate him.

Source: Zhuangzi Sanmu: "When you see a cicada, you get a beautiful picture and forget its body. When you see it, you will forget its shape; Different magpies benefit from it, and forget the righteousness. " Han Han Ying's Biography of Han Poems: "Mantis wants to eat cicadas, but I don't know that the yellowbird is behind, so he pecks at it by holding his neck."

For example, you can't fight the border area. These two stories are reasonable, that is, "the clam struggles, and the fisherman gains" and "the mantis catches the cicada, and the yellowbird comes last". Mao Zedong questioned Kuomintang.

2, moths to the fire

Pinyin: Pinyin

Explanation: A moth puts out a fire, which is a metaphor for self-destruction.

Source: Liang Shuzhi's biography: "How can a moth set herself on fire?"

For example, he came to vote today, but it was a moth to the fire and asked for it. The Second Fold of Xiaoxiang Rain in Yuan Dynasty

3, the golden cicada hulls

Pinyin: jρn chán tu not qi ao

Description: cicadas shed their shells when they are adults. Metaphor muddle through, make people can't find it in time.

Source: Yuan Hanqing's "Xie Tianxiang" is the second discount: "I tried some tricks, and I was too anxious to find a lie."

Example: Now we are in a hurry to hide, but we can't escape from the expectation, so we have to use the method of "golden cicada shelling". Cao Qing Xueqin's "Dream of Red Mansions" Chapter 27

4. Clues

Pinyin: zhs Ο m ǐ j ǐ

Explanation: Spiders can be found from the hanging spider silk, and the whereabouts of horses can be found from the marks of horseshoes. Metaphor things leave traces and clues.

Source: Wang Qingjia's preface to Bieya: "The door to the same fallacy is wide open. There are many words that cannot be used universally, but there are actually clues, exactly the same, in ancient books."

Example: astute public security personnel quickly found the clue of the perpetrator according to the clues on the spot.

5. jackals, tigers and leopards

Pinyin: Cai Lang H incarnation

Explanation: It refers to all kinds of beasts that harm people and animals. It is also a metaphor for vicious villains.

Origin: Liu E's Travels of Lao Can, the eighth time: "What is really terrible is wolves, tigers and leopards. It is getting late. If we come out, we will be broken. "

Example: the first kind of snakes, rats, insects and mosquitoes; The second is jackals, tigers and leopards. Qing Wu Ren Jian's first "strange status quo witnessed in 20 years"