庸人自扰 — Chinese idiom
庸人自扰
yōng rén zì rǎo
Traditional: 庸人自擾
Meaning
- lit. silly people get their panties in a bunch
- fig. to get upset over nothing
- to make problems for oneself
Character by character
- 庸yōngusual, common, ordinary, mediocre
- 人rénman, person; people
- 自zìself; private, personal; from
- 扰rǎoto poke, to disturb, to annoy, to agitate
Idioms sharing a character
- 一鸣惊人 yī míng jīng rén
- 三人成虎 sān rén chéng hǔ
- 不可告人 bù kě gào rén
- 不恤人言 bù xù rén yán
- 不甘人后 bù gān rén hòu
- 不甘后人 bù gān hòu rén
- 不近人情 bù jìn rén qíng
- 乘人不备 chéng rén bù bèi
- 事在人为 shì zài rén wéi
- 人丁兴旺 rén dīng xīng wàng
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