Wednesday 7 October 2009

Daily Chinese Proverb: Imagination

This Chinese proverb is about letting your mind run away with itself. Even becoming preoccupied or obsessed with an idea. The proverb could also be used to describe someone who often daydreams.

胡思乱想
hú ​sī ​luàn ​xiǎng
to let one's imagination run wild
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Another couple of English Proverbs with similiar meaning are

A bee in your bonnet; and

Flights of fancy

Both those proverbs have the meaning to let thoughts preoccupy yourself and to maybe even become obsessed with those ideas.


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2 comments:

  1. Greg11 October 2009 at 13:48

    Charlie, thanks for another in your great series of Chinese Proverbs. Thought you might be interested to know I used this in my recent post about learning to read & write Chinese.

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  2. Charlie @ Discovering Mandarin11 October 2009 at 14:20

    Thanks Greg. I saw it, great intergration of the proverb.

    :) Thanks for the email too. Lots more to think about.

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