志大力薄zhì dà lì bó

have grandiose aims but little strength
❍ 然而世间纸张还多，每一文社的人数却少，～，写不完所有的纸张，……(鲁迅《二心集·“硬译”与 “文学的阶级性”》23) But there is still a great deal of paper in the world,and each literary coterie is small. They have grandiose aims but little strength and cannot use all that paper.