守株待兔
      Explanation: Plants: the roots above ground. Original metaphor hitu successful without the efforts of the chances. Now also be used to hang on narrow experiences and not flexible.
      Usage: -Linked; as object, attribute; containing derogatory
      Source: Warring States and Han Fei, "Han Feizi": "Song with farming who have strains Tanaka, rabbits also, touch off the neck and died columns."
      Examples: I came to serve the country must feed brother, did ~ bidding. (Ming Xu Zhonglin "Gods," the ninety-fourth back)
      Riddle: Willow
      Story: According to legend, in the Warring States period, a peasant, sunrise, Riruerxi. Experiencing good times, beginning to feed themselves; a case of famine, to go hungry. He wanted to improve their lives, but he too lazy, timid and especially small, what are all lazy and frightened, always want to hit right at your fingertips in a windfall. A miracle took place. One day in late autumn, he was plowing in the field, surrounded by people in the hunt. Shoutings around the ups and downs, scared animals die in the running. Suddenly, a rabbit, impartiality, one killed in his roots on the edge of the field. Day, After he ate his fill. Since then, he will no longer be farming. All day long, he stayed by that miraculous stump, waiting for a miracle. Phrase "sit back and wait," metaphor does not want to labor derived from death, or sticking to narrow experiences and not flexible.
  • Thesaurus:  Jiaozhuguse, Jiaozhutiaose
  • Antonym Group:   act with due consideration of one's own abilities, Hides when the degree of force, See the wind the boat, Is wind driven boat