杞人忧天
Explanation: Qi: Zhou vassal state the name of Qi County of Henan in this area. Qi state-owned personal fear monsters. Analogy unnecessary or unfounded worries and concerns. Usage: The main predicate; as predicate, adverbial; containing derogatory Source: Cheng Lie Yukou Warring States "Liezi Shui": "State of Qi who worry about falling world collapse, the death of the mail, who spent eat or sleep." Examples: ~, Sad eyes of Bo into account. (Qing Li Ruzhen "Flowers in the Mirror" twenty-seventh back) Story: Qi State in the past, there was a timid and a bit nervous, he often thought of some strange problems, and people baffled. One day, he ate dinner, took a big palm-leaf fan, sitting in front of the process volume, and said to himself: "If one day, heaven down, then how to do it? We not be free Road to escape, but will be crushed alive, which is not too unfair to you? "Since then, he almost every day to worry about this problem, trouble, friends to see him in a trance all day long, his face gaunt, very worried for him However, when we know the reasons, they all came to persuade him, said: "Brother ah! Why should you bother to do this? how the sky will fall down? In that fall down even if it is not your One worry concerns can be resolved, ah, want to point it open! "But, no matter how people said he did not believe, still, sometimes, unnecessary problems for the concerns. Who was under the above story, extended as "unfounded" idiom, its main meaning people do not wake up for some unrealistic things and blue. It is with the "fuss" about the same meaning.- Thesaurus: much ado about nothing, Concern for the ancients
- Antonym Group: quench one's thirst by thinking of plums, Talk to toy, sour grapes, Talk to mockery
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