stir up enmity

stir up enmity

Tongue twister, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ti á Ozu ǐ n ò ngsh é, which means to gossip behind one's back. It comes from the story of Li Cuilian.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym]: tongue, lip and tongue

Idiom usage

When did you go out, Du Xing was very presumptuous and came in from time to time to cheat me. The fourth chapter of Chen Chen's Shuihu houzhuan in Qing Dynasty

The origin of Idioms

"Sooner or later, the East is going to light up. If you don't finish your make-up, you'll still have a tongue in your mouth!"