好高骛远 (好高騖遠)
hào gāo wù yuǎn
Pinyin

Definition

好高骛远 (好高騖遠)
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hào gāo wù yuǎn
  1. to bite off more than one can chew (idiom)
  2. to aim too high

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

hǎo
  1. 1 good
  2. 2 well
  3. 3 proper
  4. 4 good to
  5. 5 easy to
  6. 6 very
  7. 7 so
  8. 8 (suffix indicating completion or readiness)
  9. 9 (of two people) close
  10. 10 on intimate terms
  11. 11 (after a personal pronoun) hello
hǎo kàn
  1. 1 good-looking
  2. 2 nice-looking
  3. 3 good (of a movie, book, TV show etc)
  4. 4 embarrassed
  5. 5 humiliated
gāng hǎo
  1. 1 just
  2. 2 exactly
  3. 3 to happen to be
Yǒu hǎo
  1. 1 Youhao district of Yichun city 伊春市[Yī chūn shì], Heilongjiang
zhǐ hǎo
  1. 1 without any better option
  2. 2 to have to
  3. 3 to be forced to

Idioms (20)

一见高低
yī jiàn gāo dī
  1. 1 lit. to fight it out with sb to see who is best (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to cross swords with
  3. 3 to lock horns
不问好歹
bù wèn hǎo dǎi
  1. 1 no matter what may happen (idiom)
不知好歹
bù zhī hǎo dǎi
  1. 1 unable to differentiate good from bad (idiom)
  2. 2 not to know what's good for one
  3. 3 unable to recognize others' good intentions
不识好歹
bù shí hǎo dǎi
  1. 1 unable to tell good from bad (idiom)
  2. 2 undiscriminating
不识高低
bù shí gāo dī
  1. 1 can't recognize tall or short (idiom); doesn't know what's what