keep close at home

keep close at home

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ì m é Nb ù ch ū, which means not to go out with the door closed, means to stop communication with the outside world. It comes from the biography of Shi Bi in the book of the later Han Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

In the Southern Dynasty, Song Dynasty and Fan Ye's biography of Shi Bi in the book of the later Han Dynasty, it is said that Jing went back to the field and said that he was sick and kept his door closed

Idiom usage

It refers to not communicating with the outside world. The thirty second chapter of the chronicles of the states of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty by Feng Menglong of the Ming Dynasty: "it is said that all the officials know that the son of a noble family is running away, and that they are all shut up." In the ninth chapter of romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong in the Ming Dynasty, except for the ferocious Lu Bu helping the situ criminal Chang'an, Li Ying listens to Jia Xu: I haven't seen the general for a long time because I've been in a slight trouble and can't leave home. In the 65th chapter of romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong in the Ming Dynasty, Ma Chao fought against jiamengguan and Liu Bei led Yizhou animal husbandry: but he said that the defeated soldiers returned to Yizhou and reported to Liu Zhang. Zhang was so surprised that he kept his door shut. Chapter 65 of the romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong in the Ming Dynasty, Ma Chao vs. Jia Meng Guan, Liu Bei leads Yizhou animal husbandry: Xuande goes to the public hall and rises to sit down. All the officials in the county were worshipped in the hall, but Huang Quan and Liu Ba kept their doors closed. Chapter 17 of the romance of the Three Kingdoms: Cao mengde meets three generals of the seven armies of Yuan Road: the embroidery army is defeated, and Cao leads the army to Nanyang city. Embroidered into the city, closed door.