use an ox cleaver to kill a chicken [Software]

posted by Helmut Homepage – Vienna, Austria, 2011-11-06 16:47 (4917 d 08:09 ago) – Posting: # 7626
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Dear yicaoting!

❝ In Chinese, we have a Proverb “Why use an ox cleaver to kill a chicken?”.

❝ I believe that there is a counterpart in English.


In German it’s “Mit Kanonen auf Spatzen schießen” (my private translation: to shoot sparrows with canons). Some English versions: “To take a sledgehammer to crack a nut”, “To break a butterfly on a wheel”.


Sparrows… Mah Jongg (Mandarin 麻將) is my favorite game. Wasn’t it named after sparrow (in Cantonese 麻雀)?

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