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拔苗助长 (拔苗助長)

bá miáo zhù zhǎng

Definition

  1. to pull shoots to help them grow (idiom)
  2. to try to help the shoots grow by pulling them upward
  3. to spoil things through excessive enthusiasm (idiom)
  4. to spoil
  5. to precipitate

This idiom is often used to describe a person, impatient for success and so, who acts as to destroy the very conditions upon which success depends.

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