{"id":4501,"date":"2019-11-20T01:05:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T01:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-phrases\/xiao-ti-da-zuo-xiao3ti2da4zuo4\/"},"modified":"2019-11-20T01:05:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T01:05:35","slug":"xiao-ti-da-zuo-xiao3ti2da4zuo4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/xiao-ti-da-zuo-xiao3ti2da4zuo4\/","title":{"rendered":"\u5c0f\u9898\u5927\u505a \u2013 xiao3ti2da4zuo4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Literal meaning of each character = small &ndash; problem &ndash; big &ndash; do\/produce<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Actually, this is basically the same as  the English idiom &ldquo;make a mountain out of a molehill&rdquo;.&nbsp; The Chinese  version doesn&rsquo;t use the graphic comparison like we do.&nbsp; They simply say  the problem is small but the doing or action is big.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just in case you don&rsquo;t know what &ldquo;make a  mountain out of a molehill&rdquo; means (perhaps you aren&rsquo;t a native English  speaker) this idiom is used to describe when someone is over reacting to  a problem.&nbsp; The problem is very small but the person is reacting as if  the problem were very big.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1345206283\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literal meaning of each character = small &ndash; problem &ndash; big &ndash; do\/produceActually, this is basically the same as  the English idiom &ldquo;make a mountain out of a molehill&rdquo;.&nbsp; The Chinese  version doesn&rsquo;t use the graphic comparison like we do.&nbsp; They simply say  the problem is small but the doing or action is big.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2834,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-allegories","category-chinese-phrases"],"views":152,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}