qián​lǘ​zhī​jì

limited tricks

黔驴之技 黔驢之技 qián​lǘ​zhī​jì
limited tricks
limited skills that are easily exhausted; a person who has used up their clumsy tricks and revealed their true weakness; based on the fable of a donkey in Guizhou that was eaten by a tiger after its only skill (kicking) failed to scare it away

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