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燕雀焉知鸿鹄之志

yàn què yān zhī hóng gǔ zhī zhì phrase

Traditional: 燕雀焉知鴻鵠之志

  1. lit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom); fig. how can we small fry predict the ambitions of the great?
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