挈瓶 qiè píng

qiè píng phrase to raise a bottle
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: To raise a small bottle of water from a well: a metaphor for a small amount of knowledge or experience (Guoyu '挈瓶'; Mathews 1931 '挈瓶', p. 110)

Contained in

• 挈瓶小智 little wisdom like drawing water from a well with a small bottle
• 挈瓶之知 little knowledge like drawing water from a well with a small bottle

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Collocations

• 运挈瓶 (運挈瓶) 運挈瓶之智 — Book of Liang 梁書, 卷三十八 列傳第三十二 朱异 賀琛 Volume 38: Zhu Yi; He Chen — count: 2