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A

• A Dried Fish Store (枯魚之肆)
• A Roc's Flight of Ten Thousand Li - A Bright Future (鵬程萬里)
• A Warning Taken From The Overturned Cart Ahead (前車之鑑)
• Aping a Beauty (醜女效顰)
• As Precarious As a Pile of Eggs (危如累卵)
• At Whose Hand Will The Dear Die (鹿死誰手)

B

• Bring The Dying Back To Life (起死回生)

D

• Do Not Burn Your House To Get Rid of A Mouse (投鼠忌器)
• Doing It Right (賞罰得宜)

E

• Eight Decalitres of Talent (才高八斗)
• Every Bush and Tree Looks Like an Enemy (草木皆兵)
• Everything is Ready Except the East Wind (萬事俱備 只欠東風)

F

• First Arrogant, Then Respectful (前倨後恭)

G

• Give The Wrong-Doer a Way Out (網開一面)

H

• Heard On The Street And Spoken of In The Road (道聽塗說)
• Heaven's Clothes Have No Stitches (天衣無縫)
• Hide a Dagger in a Smile (笑裡藏刀)
• Honey In The Mouth And Swords In The Stomach (口蜜腹劍)
• How The Foolish Old Man Moved Mountains (愚公移山)

I

• If The Lips Are Gone, The Teeth Will Be Cold (唇亡齒寒)
• Ignorance of The Objective World (不合時宜)
• Indigo Blue is Extracted From The Indigo Plant (青出於藍)

L

• Lamenting One's Littleness before the Vast Ocean (望洋興歎)
• Like Fire and Flowering Rush (如火如荼)
• Looking for a Steed with the Aid Of Its Picture (按圖索驥)

M

• Make Three Calls At The Thatched Cottage (三顧茅廬)
• Mau Suei Recommends Himself (毛遂自薦)

O

• Official Jiang Uses Up His Talent (江郎才盡)
• On The Eastern Bed with His Stomach Exposed (袒腹東床)
• One Character is Worth a Thousand Taels of Gold (一字千金)
• One Day of Sunlight Followed By Ten Days of Cold (一暴十寒)
• One Hair From Nine Oxen ( 九牛一毛)
• One Strike Fires Up The Spirit (一鼓作氣)
• Only One Side is Willing (一廂情願)

P

• Paper is Expensive in Loyang (洛陽紙貴)
• Perfectly Fair and Impartial (大公無私)
• Plugging One's Ears While Stealing a Bell (掩耳盜鈴)
• Practice Makes Perfect (熟能生巧)
• Professed Love of What One Really Fears (葉公好龍)
• Proficiency in a particular line (一技之長)
• Pulling On One's Shoe In a Melon Patch, Or Adjusting One's Cap Under A Plum Tree (瓜田李下)

R

• Randomly Speaking Out Orpiment (信口雌黃)
• Retreating about Thirty Miles as Condition For Peace (退避三舍)

S

• Shivering All Over Though Not Cold (不寒而慄)
• Single-hearted Devotion (專心致志)
• Songs of Ch'u on All Four Sides (四面楚歌)

T

• The 'You' Cannot Decide (猶豫不決)
• The Affair of The East Window Is Exposed (東窗事發)
• The Bird Jingwei Trying To Fill The Sea (精衛填海)
• The Broken Mirror is Put Back Together (破鏡重圓)
• The Conceit of The King of Yelang (夜郎自大)
• The Courtyard Is As Crowded As a Market Place (門庭若市)
• The Debt Platform is Built Up High (債臺高築)
• The Donkey In Ancient Guizhou Has Exhausted Its Tricks (黔驢技窮)
• The Fox Borrows The Tiger's Power (狐假虎威)
• The Fox Is Sad At The Death of The Hare (兔死狐悲)
• The Frog in the Shallow Well (井底之蛙)
• The Gentleman On The Beam (樑上君子)
• The Horse Which Does Harm To The Herd - A Black Sheep (害群之馬)
• The Host of The East (東道主人)
• The Hounds Are Killed For Food Once All The Hares Are Bagged (兔死狗烹)
• The King's Seabird (魯侯養鳥)
• The Latecomers Surpass the Old-timers (後來居上)
• The Man of Ch'i Fears That the Sky Will Fall (杞人憂天)
• The Measurements Are More Reliable (愚人買鞋)
• The More One Tries to Hide a Mistake, The More It Is Exposed (欲蓋彌彰)
• The Old Horse Knows The Way (老馬識途)
• The Old Man Under The Moon (月下老人)
• The Old Man Who Lost His Horse (塞翁失馬)
• The Plum Tree Sacrifices Itself For The Peach Tree-Sacrifice Oneself For Another Person (李代桃僵)
• The Prime Minister's Gift (無功不受祿)
• The Snipe and The Clam Have a Quarrel (鷸蚌相爭)
• The Wolf and The Bei Make Mischief (狼狽為奸)
• Three People Make a Tiger (三人成虎)
• Three in the Morning and Four at Night (朝三暮四)
• To Ask a Fox for Its Skin (與狐謀皮)
• To Attempt To Go South by Driving the Chariot North (南轅北轍)
• To Attract Jade by Laying Bricks (拋磚引玉)
• To Be Able To Catch Sparrows On the Doorstep (門可羅雀)
• To Be As If Sitting On a Bed of Needles (如坐針氈)
• To Be Behind Sun Shan (名落孫山)
• To Bend The Chimney and Move The Firewood (曲突徙薪)
• To Break The Cauldrons And Sink The Boats (破釜沈舟)
• To Bring Disaster Upon The Fish (殃及池魚)
• To Carve a Mark in the Boat And Look For the Sword (刻舟求劍)
• To Contradict Oneself (自相矛盾)
• To Draw a Snake and Add on Feet (畫蛇添足)
• To Fluff Up the Pillow And Have a Good Rest (高枕無憂)
• To Hang Books On The Ox's Horn (牛角掛書)
• To Have So Much Fun That One Forgets About Shu (樂不思蜀)
• To Have an Image of Bamboo In One's Mind (胸有成竹)
• To Knot Grass and Carry a Ring (結草銜環)
• To Look At Someone With New Eyes (刮目相看)
• To Lose The Sheep On A Forked Road (歧路亡羊)
• To Make The Fish Sink And The Goose Fall (沈魚落雁)
• To Make Up the Number in the Yu Ensemble (濫竽充數)
• To Mistake The Reflection of The Bow For a Snake (杯弓蛇影)
• To Mow The Grass And Scare The Snake (打草驚蛇)
• To Neglect The Root And Attend To The Tip (捨本逐末)
• To Offer The Warmth Of The Sun (獻曝之忱)
• To Proffer a Birch and Ask For a Flogging (負荊請罪)
• To Quench One's Thirst By Thinking of Plums (望梅止渴)
• To Quit Halfway Down the Road (半途而廢)
• To Repair The Fence After Losing The Sheep (亡羊補牢)
• To Return the Jade Intact To Chao (完璧歸趙)
• To Seek Small Gains But Incur Big Losses (貪小失大)
• To Show Off One's Skill With an Axe In Front of Lu Ban's Door (班門弄斧)
• To Sleep On Brushwood And Taste Gall (臥薪嘗膽)
• To Speak Like a Flowing River (口若懸河)
• To Strive For Words and Struggle for Reason (強詞奪理)
• To Swallow Dates Whole (囫圇吞棗)
• To Take By Treachery And Seize By Bullying (巧取豪奪)
• To Try To Help The Shoots Grow By Pulling Them Upward (揠苗助長)
• To Walk Rather Than Ride (安步當車)
• To Watch The Dust Settle And Be Unable To Catch Up (望塵莫及)
• Treat Each Other With Respect (相敬如賓)

U

• Unclear And Able To Go Either Way (模稜兩可)
• Utopia (世外桃源)

V

• Very Intelligent in Youth (小時了了)

W

• What is Said Carries Weight (一言為重)
• When One's Forefinger Jumps (食指大動)
• When The Map Was Unrolled, The Dagger Was Revealed (圖窮匕見)
• Whoever Plays With Fire Will Get Burnt (玩火自焚)