Description: Green is extracted from blue grass, but the color is darker than blue grass.

From: Yang Mo's Song of Youth, Chapter 36: "shine on you is better than blue. Xiao Lin, why did Lao Jiang send me to help you? "

Example: You young people are really shine on you and better than blue.

2. Toad wants to eat swan meat

Explanation: Metaphorically, people have no self-knowledge and are bent on pursuing the impossible.

Said by: Cao Qingxue Qin's eleventh story of A Dream of Red Mansions: "Pinger said' Toad wants to eat swan meat', and the ungrateful bastard killed him!"

My brother is only five or six feet above the ground. This tree is out of reach. How can I choose him? This is' Toad wants to eat swan meat'. ◎ The ninth time of Li Qingru's "The Edge of Mirror Flowers"

Grammar: compound sentences, as objects, have derogatory meanings.

Does an ugly daughter-in-law have to see her in-laws?

Explanation: Metaphor can't be hidden, but it will always be revealed.

From: Qing Li Garbo's Sixteen Records of Officialdom: "The ugly daughter-in-law always wants to see her in-laws, so I can do it myself."

4. One more thing is better than one less thing?

Explanation: It means to mind your own business, and the fewer things, the better.

Said by: Qing Liu E's Travels of the Old Disabled: "In this troubled autumn, the ministers are afraid of being punished. One more thing is better than one less thing, and everything is ruined. What will happen in the future? "

5, eating a bowl and looking at the pot.

Explanation: This is a metaphor for greed.

From: Cao Qingxue Qin's Sixteen Chapters of a Dream of Red Mansions: "That boss Xue is also' eating a bowl and watching the pot'."

6. Dogs don't spit ivory.

Explanation: Metaphorically speaking, bad people can't say good things.

From: The First Fold of Yuan Qu Selected Encounters with the Emperor: "A dog can't spit ivory, no matter what good words or fair words the father says."