idiom > to make big investment for small returns
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Pearl shells to bird
  Explanation: Sparrow with pearl shells. Reverse the severity of metaphor, not worth the candle.
  Usage: Partial official; as predicate, attributive; containing derogatory
  Source: "Chuang-tzu to the king," and it was here today to Sui Hou play a thousand yards of the bird beads, the world will laugh, is why? Then they use are heavy, and those who want to light also. "
No. 2
  Sparrows with pearl shells. Analogy can not work on balance, more harm than good. "Zhuang zi": "Some people here today and to the pearl shells with Hou thousand yards of the birds, the world will laugh at. Is Why? Is its heavy users, but those who want to light also." Han Yang Xiong "too Xuan Tang ":" Pearl shells Yu Fei meat, its Debu complex. test, saying: pearl shells meat, fees, inappropriate. "Fan Wang Note: The" flying meat, poultry also. "Tang Wang Ya Note:" Taking pearl shells of birds, they die from no longer have. "
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No. 3
  成语 以珠弹雀
  发音 yǐ zhū tán què
  解释 用珍珠弹麻雀。比喻轻重颠倒,得不偿失。
  出处 《庄子·让王》:“今且有人于此,以隋侯之珠弹千仞之雀,世必笑之,是何也?则其所用者重,而所要者轻也。”
  事例 盖人当困心衡虑之既极,往往不惜倒行逆施,~。 ★清·梁启超《中国外交方针私议》
成语词典
  成语名称
  以珠弹雀
  汉语拼音
  yǐ zhū tán què
  成语释义
  用珍珠弹麻雀。比喻轻重颠倒,得不偿失。
  成语出处
  《庄子·让王》:“今且有人于此,以隋侯之珠弹千仞之雀,世必笑之,是何也?则其所用者重,而所要者轻也。”
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English Expression
  1. v.:   make big investment for small returns
Thesaurus
stage a war, harass the people and drain the treasury, Tire the troops Dynamic public, Half the force times, one ant hole may cause the collapse of a thousand li dyke, fatigue Had [would] as lief ...as capture
Antonym
Begging pulp liquor, Profit The times