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A woman is sitting on a stone. Please guess an idiom.

Throw eggs at stones.

Pinyin: y ǐ lu ǐ n j ǐ sh í

Explanation: Touch the stone with an egg. Metaphor does not estimate their own strength, bring about my own destruction.

Source: Xun Zi Yi Bing: "If you are a demon, if you throw stones with eggs, it is called boiling around."

Ex.: Liu Yuzhou doesn't know the little land and is eager to try, just like ~, is he invincible? ★ 43rd Romance of the Three Kingdoms in Guanzhong, Ming Luo

Synonym: throwing stones at eggs is more than one can chew.

Antonym:

Grammar: as predicate, attribute and object; Refers to their own strength.

English: throw an egg at a stone

Idiom story: Mozi, a famous thinker in the Warring States period, met a fortune teller on his way to Qi State. The fortune teller said that he looked pale and should not go. Mo Zhai didn't believe him at all, saying that fortune tellers are superstitious, and superstition can't overcome the truth. Taking superstition to deny the truth is like "throwing an egg at a stone", which does no harm to the truth.

(throwing eggs at stones, throwing eggs at stones)

See "Throw stones with eggs".

Two-part allegorical saying: I know nothing; Didn't measure yourself well