大兴土木
      Explanation: Xing: Founder; Civil: refers to the building works. A large scale to build a house.
      Usage: Verb-object type; for the predicate; negative, suggesting a large number of building houses
      Source: "Old Five Dynasties Han Li Shouzhen Biography": "to its wide, massive construction projects, rule Suiyu, as the capital of the armor."
      Examples: Ling WANG both go, shame its reactive power, is ~, trying to use material system, showy princes. (Ming Feng Meng, "Eastern Zhou Chi," the sixty-seventh back)
  • Thesaurus:  Trifles, move troops about and stir up the people— drag in many people to do sth., convet a little and lose a lot; seek small gains but incur big losses, Bellicose Poor soldiers, adopt a warlike policy, chichi, Venereology material for mobilization, reject what is near at hand and seek what is far away, Dwelling services far, Start war Dynamic public, qiongdu