Guessing the idiom is a very interesting puzzle game, it allows us to think at the same time, we can also learn a lot of idiom knowledge, every day will share interesting guessing idioms with you!
That's all for this issue, how many have you guessed? Welcome to share it in the comment area, and the answer will be revealed to you in the next issue!
The answer in the last issue: (The water is out, add fuel to the fire, repay virtue with grievances, peep into the sky, judge people by appearance, and export into chapters) How many of you answered correctly?
The story behind the idiom in the last issue
1. **Falling Ground**
- **Origin**: This idiom comes from the first volume of the Song Dynasty writer Lu You's "Notes on Lao Xue'an": "Covering the water and retreating the stone is to see, and the metaphor is the end of the matter, like the water falling and the stone comes out." The original meaning is that after the water level drops, the stone is revealed, which is a metaphor for the truth of the matter.
- **Meaning**: It is now used to describe things that have been investigated or the passage of time, and the truth is finally clear.
2. **Fuel the Fire**
- **Origin**: The origin of this idiom is not clear, but its meaning comes from real life experience, that is, adding oil when the fire is already strong will make the fire more intense.
- **Meaning**: It is now used to describe the situation by further exacerbating the contradiction or conflict in a tense or intense situation, making the situation worse.
3. **Repay virtue with grievances**
- **Origin**: This idiom comes from "Zuo Chuan: The Twenty-fourth Year of the Duke of Xu": "Repay grievances with virtue, how to repay virtue?" The original meaning was to repay the kindness of others with resentment, which is an immoral act.
- **Meaning**: It is now used to describe not only not being grateful, but taking revenge for a favor from others.
4. **Peep into the sky**
- **Origin**: This idiom comes from "Zhuangzi Foreign Things": "To look at the sky with a tube, to point to the earth with a cone, how can it be as big as it gets!" The original meaning refers to observing the sky through a bamboo pipe, and only a small part of it can be seen, which is a metaphor for a narrow view and inability to fully understand things.
- **Meaning**: Now it is used to describe people's narrow vision and one-sided understanding.
5. **Judging people by their appearance**
- **Origin**: This idiom comes from "Historical Records: The Biography of Zhongni's Disciples": "Confucius said: 'I take people by words, and I lose them; Judging people by their appearance, they lose their sons. The original meaning is that judging a person's qualities and abilities based on their physical appearance is an unfair way of evaluation.
- **Meaning**: Now used to criticize those who judge others based solely on their appearance.
6. **Seisho Deguchi**
- **Origin**: This idiom comes from "The Book of Songs, Xiaoya, Crane Song": "The crane sings in Jiugao, and the sound is heard in the wild." The fish is in the abyss, or lies in the nagisa. The garden of Lebi has sandalwood trees, and there is a dimension under it. The stones of other mountains can be used to attack jade. Among them, "the stones of other mountains can be used to attack jade" was extended by later generations as "export into chapters", which originally meant that speaking was as organized and literary as an article.
- **Meaning**: Now it is used to describe people who are eloquent, well-organized, and eloquent.