管中窥豹 — Chinese idiom
管中窥豹
guǎn zhōng kuī bào
Traditional: 管中窺豹
Meaning
- lit. to see a leopard through a narrow tube ; fig. to miss the big picture
Character by character
- 管guǎntube, pipe, duct; to manage, to control
- 中zhōngcentral; center, middle; amidst; to hit (target),
- 窥kuīto peep, to spy on, to watch
- 豹bàoleopard, panther; surname
Idioms sharing a character
- 不管不顾 bù guǎn bù gù
- 撒手不管 sā shǒu bù guǎn
- 管见所及 guǎn jiàn suǒ jí
- 丝竹管弦 sī zhú guǎn xián
- 双管齐下 shuāng guǎn qí xià
- 一矢中的 yī shǐ zhòng dì
- 一语中的 yī yǔ zhòng dì
- 中箭落马 zhòng jiàn luò mǎ
- 中西合璧 Zhōng Xī hé bì
- 人中龙凤 rén zhōng lóng fèng
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