Dog-tailed mink (pinyin: gǒu wěi xù diāo) is an idiom, which comes from the book of Jin Zhao Chuan.
Dog-tailed mink (mink: an animal with precious fur) In ancient times, officials used the mink's tail as a crown ornament, but in the Jin Dynasty, the official seal was too much and the mink's tail was insufficient, so the dog's tail was used instead of the mink. The metaphor of inferior products is often used to describe the literary works that are not as good as the original works. With derogatory meaning; Generally used as subject, predicate and attribute in sentences.
Tang Fang Ling Xuan's Biography of the Book of Jin and Zhao Wanglun: "Slaves and slaves are also knighted. Every time the court held a meeting, Diusim's story was full, and people at that time said,' The mink is not enough, and the dog's tail continues'. "
Later generations derived the idiom "the dog's tail continues to mink" from this allusion.
Idiom moral:
Idioms tell people to do a thing well from beginning to end. Don't write down the result of failure for various reasons when things are coming to an end, which will undermine all previous efforts and reduce the height of accumulation.