Yi ru fan zhang (易如反掌 yì rú fǎn zhǎng) is a Chinese four-character idiom (chengyu) meaning "very easy". Literally, it means "as easy as turning over one's hand".
The idiom developed as a paraphrase of two passages in Mencius and was an established four-character idiom by the Qing dynasty at the latest.
It has been compared to the English colloquial idiom, as easy as pie.[1]
References edit
- ^ Tang, Chihsia (2007). "A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ENGLISH AND CHINESE IDIOMS WITH FOOD NAMES" (PDF). USTWPL 3: 83-93. National Tsing Hua University. pp. 89–90. Retrieved 29 November 2010.