- if you lift the headrope the meshes spread open (idiom)
- take care of the big things and the little things will take care of themselves
- (of a piece of writing) well-structured and ordered
Characters
- 纲 (綱): head rope of a fishing net; guiding principle; key link; class (taxonomy); outline; program
- 举 (擧): variant of 舉|举[ju3]
- 目 (目): eye; (literary) to look; to regard; eye (of a net); mesh; mesh size; grit size (abbr. for 目數|目数[mu4 shu4]); item; section; list; catalogue; (taxonomy) order; name; title
- 张 (張): surname Zhang
Resources
- Wiktionary: 纲举目张
- MDBG: 纲举目张
- Examples with 纲举目张 on Tatoeba
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