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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- to bite off more than one can chew (idiom)
- to aim too high
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 good
- 2 well
- 3 proper
- 4 good to
- 5 easy to
- 6 very
- 7 so
- 8 (suffix indicating completion or readiness)
- 9 (of two people) close
- 10 on intimate terms
- 11 (after a personal pronoun) hello
- 1 good-looking
- 2 nice-looking
- 3 good (of a movie, book, TV show etc)
- 4 embarrassed
- 5 humiliated
- 1 just
- 2 exactly
- 3 to happen to be
- 1 Youhao district of Yichun city 伊春市[Yī chūn shì], Heilongjiang
- 1 without any better option
- 2 to have to
- 3 to be forced to
Idioms (20)
一见高低
- 1 lit. to fight it out with sb to see who is best (idiom)
- 2 fig. to cross swords with
- 3 to lock horns
不问好歹
- 1 no matter what may happen (idiom)
不知好歹
- 1 unable to differentiate good from bad (idiom)
- 2 not to know what's good for one
- 3 unable to recognize others' good intentions
不识好歹
- 1 unable to tell good from bad (idiom)
- 2 undiscriminating
不识高低
- 1 can't recognize tall or short (idiom); doesn't know what's what