Donkey Restaurant in Baoding China

Donkey Restaurant in Baoding - 2008

This is a collection of Chinese says and idioms connected with "donkey":
from right to left:

1. Kill the donkey after the milling job is done. When you are needed, you are my friend. When the job is done, you are fired.
2. Mating with a jackass that has only one testicle does not ensure pregnancy. A deficient worker does not guarantee fulfillment of his job.
3. Get off the donkey at a sloping place. (Get out of an unfavorable situation) when there is a good reason.)
4. As miserly as the old skinflint man who grudged to ride his donkey. (an idiom from a Chinese fable)
5. Being stubborn as a donkey.
6. Riding the donkey facing backward as Zhang Guolao. (from a legend story)
7. A lazy donkey begins to pass water and dung as soon as it's harnessed to the mill. (Do soldiering.)
8. Let's read the scenario while riding a donkey: see what will happen ahead. (If you don't believe me, let's wait and see.)

9. Donkey roll (A food in Sichuan, made of cooked glutinous rice. When sold, the roll is put into baked soy bean flour and trundled like a donkey in the dust, hence the name.) 10. The donkey gets angry and kicks at the tiger. (from the Chinese fable "The Guizhou Donkey")
11. A man who takes only comforting words is like a donkey that is docile only when its hair is being smoothed.
12. A donkey never kisses a horse. (said when an explanation is not to the point.)
13. You mistake my good will as out of a donkey's offal.
14. Running out of wit as the Guizhou Donkey.
15. A stubborn donkey, (referred to some one who is stubborn as a donkey)
16. Like a donkey's dropping that looks shiny but there is only rubbish inside.


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