created sense approved 瓮计/甕計 · wèngjì · wishful thinking — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
瓮计 / 甕計
wèngjì
wishful thinking
To count one's chickens before they are hatched; refers to someone so poor they live in a jar but still indulge in grand delusions about the future.
瓮 (literal) → 瓮 · wèng · urn 计 (literal) → 计/計 · jì · plan
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition