Synonyms about cows.

Slangs about cows:

1. Cows plow the fields, horses eat the rice

Explanation: The cows work hard to plow the fields, but the horses eat the rice alone. It is a metaphor for unfair treatment, suffering for those who suffer, and enjoyment for those who enjoy happiness.

2. The horse's mouth stuck into the cow pen

Explanation: Cows and horses are fed in separate troughs. If a horse's mouth appears in the cow pen, it means excess. Ask people not to talk too much.

Example: The old woman scolded Lao He loudly: "You said so! The horse's mouth was stuck in the cattle pen!" - Ai Wu's "My Traveling Companion"

3. Bullshit cannot be blown, and trains cannot be pushed.

Explanation: It means not to talk big words out of thin air, but to see the true ability.

4. An ox does not know its horns, and a horse does not know its face

Explanation: It is a metaphor for people who are not self-aware and do not take their obvious shortcomings seriously.

5. If the ox has no strength to pull the rake, the man will speak nonsense without reason.

Explanation: The ox has no strength to pull the rake and it will be crooked. If the man has no reason to speak, he will be dishonest.

6. An ox has the strength of a thousand catties, but a person has a way to defeat an ox.

Explanation: It is a metaphor that no matter how powerful the opponent is, there is still a way to subdue him.

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Idioms about cows:

1. A house filled with sweating cows

Pronunciation: hàn niú chōng dòng

Explanation: It refers to using cows to transport books, and the cows will be tired and sweating; using a house to store books, the whole house must be filled. Describes a large collection of books.

Source: Tang Dynasty Liu Zongyuan's "Mr. Wentong Lu Gieshi's Tomb List": "It is a book, everywhere it fills the building, and when it comes out it is sweating."

Translation: Give it to him The pile of biographies would fill a room, and transporting them out would make even the horses and oxen sweat. ”

Usage: as a predicate; with a complimentary meaning, describing a large collection of books.

Synonyms: pictures on the left and history on the right, vast sea of ??smoke, sweating cows in the house

Antonyms: Very few, only a handful, as few as the morning stars

Example: This old gentleman has so many books that it is most appropriate to describe them as a vast collection of books.

2. A small test.

Pronunciation: niú dāo xiǎo shì

Explanation: It is a metaphor for a person with great ability to show off his skills in small things first. It is also a metaphor for a capable person to show his talent as soon as he starts working.

Source: Song Dynasty Su Shi's poem "Sending Master Ouyang to Guanweicheng": "After reading Thirty Thousand Toothpicks, I want to come to Xiaoyi to test my skills. ”

Translation: I have read a lot of books, and I am very talented. Now I am working as an official in a small place like Weicheng, which is just a small test to show off my skills.

Synonyms: first showing off, Come to the fore

Antonym: show off one's talents

Usage: subject-predicate form; used as predicate and attributive; used in written language

3. Lao Niu La Calf

Pronunciation: lǎo niú shì dú

Explanation: Parents love their children

Source: "Book of the Later Han·Yang Biao Biography" by Fan Ye of the Southern Dynasties and Song Dynasty: "Zi Xiuwei." Cao Cao killed Biao. Cao Cao saw Biao and asked, "How come you are so thin?" ' He said to him: 'I feel ashamed that I don't have the foresight of Rixi, but I still cherish the love of an old cow licking its calf'. "

Translation: Yang Xiu was killed by Cao Cao. Cao Cao asked Yang Xiu's father: "Why is Mr. Yang so thin?" Yang Biao sighed and said, "I'm ashamed that I didn't have the foresight like Jin Rixi. Now I still have a love for my children like an old cow licking its own child!" "

Usage: subject-predicate form; used as subject and object; with a complimentary meaning, referring to parents' love for their children.

Synonyms: loving children, loving licking calves

4. Nine oxen and one hair

Pronunciation: jiǔ niú yī háo

Explanation: A hair on the body of nine oxen is a metaphor for a very small number in a huge number.

Source: Han Dynasty Sima Qian's "Report to Ren Shaoqing": "If you order your servant to fall down and be punished, it is like the death of a hair from nine oxen. How is it different from an ant?" ”

Translation: If I am punished by law and killed, it is just like losing a hair from a cow, what is the difference from the death of a cricket or an ant?

Synonyms: a hair from a cow, A drop in the ocean, insignificant

Antonym: countless, as numerous as a cow's hair

Grammar: more formal; used as subject, object, attributive; metaphor is extremely small, insignificant

Example sentences. : The earth is as small as an ox in a world of brilliant stars.