- lit. throw out a brick and get jade thrown back (idiom)
- fig. to attract others' interest or suggestions by putting forward one's own modest ideas to get the ball rolling
Characters
- 抛 (拋): to throw; to toss; to fling; to cast; to abandon
- 砖 (塼): variant of 甎|砖[zhuan1]
- 引 (引): to draw (e.g. a bow); to pull; to stretch sth; to extend; to lengthen; to involve or implicate in; to attract; to lead; to guide; to leave; to provide evidence or justification for; old unit of distance equal to 10 丈[zhang4], one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters
- 玉 (玉): jade
Resources
- Wiktionary: 抛砖引玉
- MDBG: 抛砖引玉
- Examples with 抛砖引玉 on Tatoeba
Examples
我这是在抛砖引玉。