打退堂鼓

Dǎ tuì táng gǔ

• (Describing a court official in feudal days) To dismiss a court session by beating a drum.
• I thought this idiom was particularly pertinent to the situation I find myself in at the moment. A few weeks ago I started

developing an application that is supposed to save time when working with large Rapid Weaver projects. The development of this application has not gone smoothly. I’m not quite halfway through, but I’m about ready to “打退堂鼓”! I won’t though, I’ll soldier on. I hate to leave projects half-finished, and I know a lot of people will like this application, when it is finally released.

So, back to the idiom.



Here is an example of its use:

虽然我正在做的编程很难，但是我不要打退堂鼓！

Although my programming is very difficult, I won’t give up half-way through!





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