A
●矮子里拔将军 直：pick a general from among the dwarfs
意：lect someone for lack of a better one;
lect from among the mediocre/ run-of-mill
B
●八字还没一撇 直：Not even the first stroke of the character “八” has happened.
意：Nothing tangible is in sight.
北淝河
Things aren’t even starting to take place yet.
There is no sign of anything happening yet.
Things are still up in the air.
●班门弄斧 直：Wield the axe before Lu Ban (the ancient master carpenter).
意：display one’s learning or parade one’s skill in the prence of an expert;
teach one’s grannie how to suck egges;
bring coal to Newcastle
●杯弓蛇影 直：mistake the shadow of a bow in the cup for a snake
意：lf-created suspicion;
imaginary fears;
be extremely nervous and suspicious
●杯水车薪 直：try to put out a carload of burnig firewood with a cup of water
意：a uless attempt;
a drop in the bucket;
utterly inadequate measure
●背水一战 直：fight with one’s back to the river or wall
意：fight to win or die;三国杀歌曲
fight a last-ditch battle;
put up a desperate fight
●冰冻三尺， 直：It takes more than one cold day to freeze three feet of ice.
非一日之寒 意：The trouble is deep-rooted;
Rome was not built in a day.
小数的大小比较
●兵来将挡， 直：stop an advancing army with troops and onrushing water with earth
水来土掩 意：counter move for move;
counter measure for measure
●不以规矩， 直：You cannot draw squares and circles without the campass and square.
不成方圆 意：Nothing can be accomplished without norms and standards.
C
鲭科●草木皆兵 直：take every grass and tree as an enemy soldier
意：a state of extreme nervousness, as if surrounded by enemies
●沧海桑田 直：Seas change into mulberry fields.
意：Time brings great change to the world.
(饱经沧桑： have experienced many vicissitudes of life)
●赤膊上阵 直：go into battle stripped to the waist
意：take personal charge and go it alone despite opposition;
Throw away all disgui and tactics;
come out into the open as a result of desperation or foolhardiness
●此地无银 直：The 300 taels of silver are not buried here (a sign put up by the man in the
三百两 folk tale over the place where he had hidden the money)
意：A clumsy lf-exposing performance or denial;
A guilty person gives himlf away by conspicuously protesting his innocence;
Protest one’s innocence too much.
●吹胡子瞪眼 直：froth at the mouth and glare with rage
意：snort and stare in anger;
fume with rage
●唇亡齿寒 直：If the lips are gone, the teeth will be expod.
意：If one of two interdependent things falls, the other is in danger.
流动的反义词
●吹毛求疵 直：blow upon the hair trying to discover a flaw
意：find fault with;
pick holes in
●寸有所长， 直：An inch has its length and a foot sometmes falls short.
尺有所短 意：Everybody has his strennths and weakness.
D
●打肿脸 直：Try to look fat by slapping one’s face till it’s swollen.
充胖子 Boast about one’s pink cheek after having been slapped.
意：Do something beyond one’s means in order to look impressive;
try to satisfy one’s vanity when one cannot really afford to do so
市民公约●当一天和尚 直：go on tolling the bell as long as one remains a monk.
撞一天钟 意：do the minimum required or do as little as possible to get by;
诗句网名 do the least that is expected of one;
take a passive attitude towards one’s work
●调虎离山 直：lure the tiger out of his mountain or lair
意：tempt or entice somebody into leaving his vantage ground
习字成语●叠床架屋 直：pile one bed upon another or build one hou on top of another
意：needless duplication;
repetition and superfluity
●东方不亮 直：When there is dark in the east, it is light in the west;
