鸡蛋碰石头
jī​dàn​pèng​shí​tou

to court destruction

  • created sense approved 鸡蛋碰石头/雞蛋碰石頭 · jī​dàn​pèng​shí​tou · to court destruction — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    鸡蛋碰石头 / 雞蛋碰石頭

    jī​dàn​pèng​shí​tou

    to court destruction

    Literally "an egg colliding with a rock"; describes attacking someone far stronger than oneself or overrating one's own abilities.

    鸡蛋 (literal) → 鸡蛋/雞蛋 · jī​dàn · chicken egg 碰 (literal) → 碰 · pèng · to touch 石头 (literal) → 石头/石頭 · shí​tou · stone

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

    created sense