[Idiom]: overkill

Pinyin: dà cái xiǎo yòng

[Explanation]: Use large materials as small materials. Improper use of metaphors is a waste of talent.

【Idiom Story】:

Xin Qiji was an outstanding patriotic poet and patriotic hero of the Southern Song Dynasty. He resolutely advocated anti-Jin and opposed peace, and was squeezed out by the court traitors, and was finally dismissed. After a long period of retirement, the imperial court re-employed him, appointed him as the pacification envoy of eastern Zhejiang and the prefect of Shaoxing, and became good friends with the patriotic poet Lu You who lived in Shaoxing.

Soon, Song Ningzong Zhao Kuan summoned Xin Qijian to the capital Lin'an, and asked him to talk about his opinions and countermeasures against the Northern Expedition against Jin. When Lu You heard the news, he was very happy that Xin Qiji could realize his ambitions, and wrote a long poem to send to his good friends. The poem wrote: The big material is small and the ancient sighs, Guan Zhongxiao He Shiliuya. It means that Xin Qiji's current only being a pacification envoy in eastern Zhejiang is really overkill, which makes people feel very sighing.

The idiom of big material and small use comes from this, and the original meaning refers to the use of large materials in small places, improper use, and waste of materials; Later, it was also used as a metaphor for improper employment and waste of talents, and it was also used for big and small purposes.

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