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For humans, this idiom is a perfect reflection on our envy of our neighbor, so to speak. You know, it’s the self-pitying sentiment we often entertain, that jobs and station in life in general are imperfect, inadequate and intolerable while other people seem to have all the fun.
Job-hoppers, for example are often described as looking for “greener grass”, or “greener pastures”.
Other varied forms of this phrase include: The grass is greener elsewhere; the grass is always greener on the other side of the lawn, on the other side of the hedge, the other side of the hill or simply on the other side.
Or, other people’s grass is always greener.
In Chinese of course we have an exact phrase to match, and that is 这山望着那山高!
Here’s an explanation of the English proverb from DeProverb.com (The Grass Is Always Greener on the Other Side of the Fence: An American Proverb of Discontent, November 1, 1995):
This proverb certainly belongs to one of the most commonly used proverbs in the English language. This should not be surprising since it expresses the only too human idea of discontent, envy, and jealousy in a metaphor which is easily understood. Interestingly enough, the proverb is also literally true as has been demonstrated by James Pomerantz in a scientific article on “‘The Grass is always Greener’: An Ecological Analysis of an Old Aphorism” (1983). This scholar proves that optical and perceptual laws alone will make the grass at a distance look greener to the human eye than the blades of grass perpendicular to the ground. The “truth” of this metaphorical proverb can, of course, also be observed often enough in the countryside when a cow or a horse is trying to get at that juicy green grass just on the other side of the fence. And since people are equally dissatisfied with their lot in life, it should not surprise anyone that a modern psychologist has spoken of “the ‘greener grass’ phenomenon” by which modern individuals continually evaluate supposedly better alternatives for themselves.
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