宁做鸡头,不做凤尾 (寧做雞頭,不做鳳尾)
nìng zuò jī tóu , bù zuò fèng wěi
Pinyin
Definition
宁做鸡头,不做凤尾 (寧做雞頭,不做鳳尾)
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- lit. would rather be a chicken's head than a phoenix's tail (idiom)
- fig. to prefer to be a big fish in a small pond rather than a small fish in a big pond
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 (negative prefix)
- 2 not
- 3 no
- 1 to do
- 2 to make
- 3 to produce
- 4 to write
- 5 to compose
- 6 to act as
- 7 to engage in
- 8 to hold (a party)
- 9 to be
- 10 to become
- 11 to function (in some capacity)
- 12 to serve as
- 13 to be used for
- 14 to form (a bond or relationship)
- 15 to pretend
- 16 to feign
- 17 to act a part
- 18 to put on appearance
- 1 not long (after)
- 2 before too long
- 3 soon
- 4 soon after
- 1 lit. isn't that a joy? (quote from Confucius)
- 2 fig. (jocularly) extremely
- 3 awfully
- 1 not only (... but also...)
Idioms (20)
一不做,二不休
- 1 don't do it, or don't rest (idiom); either give up, or go through to the end
- 2 Since we started, we must carry it through whatever happens.
- 3 in for a penny, in for a pound
一人得道,鸡犬升天
- 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
- 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
- 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
- 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一个天南,一个地北
- 1 to live miles apart (idiom)
一传十,十传百
- 1 news pass quickly from mouth to mouth (idiom)
- 2 an infectious disease spreads quickly (old meaning)
一则以喜,一则以忧
- 1 happy on the one hand, but worried on the other (idiom)