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Sayings & Idioms · LT903

Common Sayings

Living vernacular colloquial sayings reflecting everyday social culture.

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2authors

Mural guide

Neighbors exchange familiar gestures among everyday household objects at a busy tea stall.

Zhou

Zhou

1046–256 BCE2 works
  1. Not Knowing the Height of Heaven or Depth of EarthXunziNot knowing how high the sky or thick the earth is; ignorant and arrogant.
  2. Fifty Paces Mocking a HundredMenciusOne who fled fifty paces mocking one who fled a hundred; the pot calling the kettle black.
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