I was actually surprised that baike.baidu gives pretty much the same story for the CR as en.wikipedia.
The chengyu pretty much summarises what is called "2nd intention" in fencing.
I guess if foxes know they're getting extracted no matter what happens, 狐假虎威 ?
Re: 皈依者狂热 I was surprised to find there actually was a joke:
"Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years?"
because I had figured that it took 70 years of communism for the people to decide the capitalists had been right about communism, and 10 years of capitalism for the people to decide the communists had been right about capitalism, so now they're trying feudalism...
Re: Atticus, arguably he's allowed to be, because we see him through Scout's eyes? (there is a fan theory that the family characters in Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon are exactly the same, only in BBT we see them as Sheldon perceives them, and in YS we see them as they perceive themselves?)
Cicada <- Mantis <- Oriole <- Courtier <- Pond, of which only the first three are explicit...
I did once run across some nice phrases at the end of a karate book, which (judging by the lack of hiragana) had been lifted, unattributed, from a chengyu-style source.
If we take 4-word to be the equivalent of 4-character:
Parry? Wait 'til late
Your lunge surprises yourself
Champion with two techniques
(hmm, that worked better than I thought it might!)
The chengyu pretty much summarises what is called "2nd intention" in fencing.
I guess if foxes know they're getting extracted no matter what happens, 狐假虎威 ?
Re: 皈依者狂热 I was surprised to find there actually was a joke:
"Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years?"
because I had figured that it took 70 years of communism for the people to decide the capitalists had been right about communism, and 10 years of capitalism for the people to decide the communists had been right about capitalism, so now they're trying feudalism...
Re: 斩杀线, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e2igZexpMs
Re: Atticus, arguably he's allowed to be, because we see him through Scout's eyes? (there is a fan theory that the family characters in Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon are exactly the same, only in BBT we see them as Sheldon perceives them, and in YS we see them as they perceive themselves?)