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Chinese idiom: 揠苗助長 — “to help crops grow by pulling them out of the ground”
- 082349872349872 3y agosouhds very close to "any function can be fast if it doesn't have to be correct" (my favourite english-language chengyu is: "Big Hat No Cattle" [which translates to 大帽零牛 ?])
- xeonmc 3y agoI’m thinking something more along the lines of “expedite business growth by taking VC money”.
- jan_Inkepa 3y agoThe translation given in the title is not how I'd phrase - it's more to help crops grow by tugging at them (the intention is to stretch them and encourage them to grow, but obviously doesn't work). I'd have gone for "to help crops grow by tugging at them".
- 082349872349872 3y agoIsn't the point that the tugging removes the roots from the soil?
- xeonmc 3y agoIndeed, but I do like the grandparent’s choice of “tugging” better as well. The original story had the foolish farmer pulling the sprouts upward by an inch and said that he had made them grow taller by that much. Maybe “tugging up the crops to speed its growth”?