Search results
百
very short-lived regime; very brief reign; (Napoleon's post-Elba) Hundred Days
waiting for one hundred years for the waters of the Yellow River to clear; waiting in vain for an unlikely event; waiting for pigs to fly; when the sky falls, we shall catch larks
Work of art, literature, music, etc. name
Pure Rules of Huaihai (set of monastery regulations said to have been written by Baizhang Huaihai)
Idiomatic expression; Proverb
single mistake which ruins all one's hard work; one blunder rendering a long period of effort useless; one fart in a hundred days of sermons
method of learning through repetition which involves multiplying and other calculations carried out on a 10-by-10 grid of numbers
Proverb
don't count your chickens before they're hatched; there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip; consider a journey of 100 ri to be halfway completed at 90
