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拋磚引玉

拋磚引玉

See also: 抛砖引玉

Chinese

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to throw; to toss; to fling; to cast; to abandon

!brick !to lead; to divert (water); to guide !jade |- !trad. (拋磚引玉) | | | | |- !simp. (抛砖引玉) | | | | |- !Literally: “to toss a brick to attract the jade”. |}

Idiom

拋磚引玉

  1. (self-depreciating) To offer one's own relatively worthless words, opinions, or services in order to attract others' more valuable contributions
    20,曾琦第一廈門投資港商,當時就是拋磚引玉」,更多僑商回國投資 [MSC, trad.]
    20,曾琦第一厦门投资港商,当时就是抛砖引玉”,更多侨商回国投资 [MSC, simp.]
    20 duō nián qián, Zēng Qí shì dì yī ge dào Xiàmén tóuzī de gǎngshāng, dāngshí tā xiǎng de jiùshì dāng yī ge "pāozhuān yǐnyù de rén", ràng gèngduō de Gǎng, Ào, Tái, qiáoshāng huíguó tóuzī. [Pinyin]
    More than 20 years ago, Zeng Qi was the first Hong Kong businessman to go to Xiamen to invest. At the time, he thought of himself as a a plain rock that attracts jade, making it possible for even more businessmen from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas to return to the motherland to invest.
  2. (originally rare) To achieve success by goading one's opponent

See also

Thirty-Six Strategems on Wikipedia.Wikipedia