Whose story is throwing eggs at stones?

Lay eggs: eggs. Touch the stone with eggs. To make a metaphor, you don't estimate your own strength and bring yourself to destruction.

"Xun C" said: "If you are stubborn, if you hit the stone with an egg, it will be boiling."

Take Ming Luo Guan Zhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms as an example: "Strong desire and struggle are like throwing eggs at a stone, and you are invincible!"

The formal use of law; As predicate, attribute and object; derogatory sense

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

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 was pale and should not go. Mo Zhai didn't believe him at all, saying that fortune tellers were superstitious and superstition could not overcome the truth. Taking superstition to deny the truth is like "throwing an egg at a stone", which does no harm to the truth.

General regulations

Those who have said nothing are still throwing eggs at stones, and their stones are still intact.

One year, Mozi went to Qi in the north. On the way, I met a man named Yue and said to Mozi, "You can't go north. Today, the Emperor of Heaven killed the black dragon in the north. Your limbs are very black. It is unlucky to go north! " Mozi said, "I don't believe you!" " "Say that finish, he continued walking towards the north. But soon, he came back, because the flood in the north made him unable to cross the river. The man named "Yue" proudly said to Mozi, "How's it going? I said you can't go north! Are you in trouble? Mozi said with a smile, "When the water overflows, pedestrians in the north and south are blocked. Some pedestrians have black skin and some have white skin. How can they not get through? " Yue was speechless after listening to it. Mozi added, "If the Emperor of Heaven killed a blue dragon in the east, a red dragon in the south, a white dragon in the west and a yellow dragon in the middle, wouldn't it move the whole world? Therefore, your lies can't match my truth. This is like taking an egg and touching a stone, touching all the eggs in the world, and the stone will not be destroyed. "

Yue left in shame. Source: Mozi returned to righteousness.