An Overview of Idioms of Picking Fat and Picking Thin

Simplified characters are very picky about fat and thin.

Chinese pinyin TiO féiji m:n shòu

Chinese interpretation of metaphor is picky, only for their own benefit. Pick, pick, pick, pick. Fat, fat; Lean meat, lean meat.

English translation is picky;

Choose what is beneficial to the individual; be picky

The origin of the idiom ◎ Qing Wu Jingzi's The Scholars: "I don't need to let my mother say yes, as long as I choose the best and fattest one, I don't have to help her."

◎ Qing Guo Xiaoting's Biography of Jigong 126: "This monk will buy ten yuan of meat and choose carefully." Sad derogatory term

Grammatical structure juxtaposition

Synonyms are critical, light and critical.

The antonym puts others before oneself, gives oneself to others, is desperate, wolfs down, is poor in choosing his wife, is cold in choosing clothes, and is hungry in choosing food.

Related riddles, greedy people choose meat (idiom 1) Answer: Pick the fat and choose the thin.

Idioms and allusions can be traced back to Liu Xiu in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Imperial academy, the capital of Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu, was established in Luoyang, five miles south of Kaiyang Gate in Luoyang. At that time, there were many interesting stories in business schools, and "picky" was one of them.

At that time, in imperial academy, there was a doctor of teaching named Zhen Mingyu, who was very knowledgeable. One year on the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu, wrote a letter to all the teaching doctors in the business school, asking the business school to spend the Spring Festival happily. But when the sheep arrived at the business school compound, there was a problem. It turns out that every sheep is different in size and fat. How to distribute it reasonably? The doctors of teaching argued for a long time, but they didn't discuss a good method acceptable to everyone.

At this moment, Zhen Yu stood up and said, "We are all teaching doctors and teachers. We can't haggle over every ounce and pick and choose! " Then he picked out the smallest and thinnest one from the flock and led it straight. This time, everyone stopped arguing. You humbly let me, and soon the sheep will be divided and you will go home happily.

This much-told story about sheep spread, and all the people in Luoyang praised Zhen Yu and addressed him as "Dr. Thin Sheep". Since then, the idiom "picky" has spread.