蚊力負山
wén​lì​fù​shān

to take on more than one can handle

  • created sense approved 蚊力负山/蚊力負山 · wén​lì​fù​shān · to take on more than one can handle — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    蚊力负山 / 蚊力負山

    wén​lì​fù​shān

    to take on more than one can handle

    to bear a mountain with the strength of a mosquito; to overestimate one's abilities and take on a task far beyond one's capacity

    蚊力 (literal) → 蚊力 · wén​lì · feeble force 负 (literal) → 负/負 · fù · to carry on the back 山 (literal) → 山 · shān · mountain

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense